Has anyone else noticed that Wikis for most games just aren’t as complete anymore?
I’m the one helping to fill in stuff these days when I swear most games had pretty fully Wiki pages within a week of release. Have most of these just moved to actual Gaming article websites? They sure as hell haven’t gone to Gamefaqs lol.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder how much it has to do with how much of a shithole the Fandom network is. Between the godawful UX, aggressive SEO to bury competing wiki in search results, and scummy business practices that effectively prevent wiki admins from migrating to other hosts, the idea of maintaining a game wiki probably isn’t all that appealing these days.
I miss Wikia…
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Would you care to elaborate on what’s preventing wiki admins from migrating?
jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They don’t actually let admins shut down or remove content from their wikis. They can leave and start a new wiki, but they have to leave the old one in place (for which Fandom could potentially just find new admins), and they can only link to the new wiki from the Fandom wiki for a period of two weeks. With Fandom’s SEO, there’s a good chance the Fandom wiki will still be ahead of search results of the new wiki even after migration. Source
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wikidot was the shit for Dark Souls games 😙👌