And do we want to continue doing it on Fandom? Yes, we can, with fairly straightforward scripts, and I am being told yes, we should leave.
Why you should STOP using Fandom | Leaflit Reacts
Why are people leaving Fandom?
Communities and editors are leaving the Fandom wiki platform due to heavy, intrusive advertising, poor mobile usability, and corporate profit-driven changes like AI-generated content that degrade the user experience. Major gaming and collaborative projects—such as the Minecraft Wiki—have “forked” away to independent hosts like wiki.gg or Weird Gloop.
Weird Gloop: We wrote a guide to help you get your wiki off Fandom
In our case, we want to communicate with the DK community about what dKosopedia can be good for. For example, i often write stories that I want to point to in later stories. We can create permanent links to such material on dKosopedia on an appropriate host.
Once you’ve established that the community wants to move (all wiki admins and active editors who you’re able to contact should be agreed that they will start doing edits on the new wiki and stop doing edits on Fandom), the next step is to move all your content to the new wiki and make it look good.
A lot of people think that this is the most difficult part, but it’s mostly a solved problem and can be automated. Wiki hosts will have import scripts that you can ask them to run.
See this article on what to do when moving wiki content for a checklist of some Fandom-specific things you’ll probably want to change once you’ve ported the content over to the new wiki.
So I will ask wiki.gg and Weird Gloop if they have scripts usable on the old dKosopedia at the Internet Archive, and if not what would be needed to fix their existing scripts to fit our needs. Then we won’t have to import 14,000+ pages manually. I suppose that the scripts can also handle linking the imported pages appropriately, but we will get that clarified, too.
Git-hub: Weird Gloop mediawiki-tools-grabbers Public
which is better weird gloop or wiki.gg?
Neither Weird Gloop nor wiki.gg is objectively “better” overall, as both are independent, high-quality alternatives to Fandom that feature clean layouts and minimal ads. The right choice depends on the specific game wiki you need, since they host different communities.
- Weird Gloop
- wiki.gg
- Operates as a large, dedicated hosting platform for dozens of diverse gaming wikis (such as Terraria, Palia, and Hollow Knight).
- Offers a unified platform with standard MediaWiki features, reliable uptime, and a cohesive ecosystem for communities leaving Fandom.
Do you have a preference for which site we use?
Do you know anything about this kind of scripting? I know only a little.
We can have a further discussion in a week after I know what I am talking about.
