Comment on Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

mojo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because monopoly.

  Shit, Mojang used to maintain their own wiki for Minecraft, but it was dropped and migrated to Fandom and now none of us can have nice things.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is it a monopoly when mediawiki is FOSS? Lots of fan wikis use that instead.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Monopolies aren’t defined by the availability of alternatives. It’s based on the market share captured by a single entity. We’d need to see statistics to determine if it’s a total monopoly, but I’m not aware of many other hosting platforms for game wikis. Maybe fextralife?

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      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I think hosting is the thing that they’ve captured, far more than the notion of a domain-specific wiki. Of course, there’s nothing stopping an aspiring wiki admin from hosting on a platform that isn’t targeted at game wikis.

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  • ryapric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was about to reply and say “nuh uh, the Minecraft wiki isn’t a Fandom one”, but jesus you’re right.

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    • bobbysq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It used to be independent until Curse started Gamepedia and then got bought by Wikia.

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