We did the same for The Talos Principle Wiki.
The community is hosting its own MediaWiki rather than rely on Fandom.
The Monster Hunter community just did the same: https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Folks finally got tired of the several horrible options and did it themselves. There’s also a discord for coordinating contributions if so inclined.
Honorary mention of Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, which existed as a fan documentation hub since the mid 90s.
This pleases me.
Good! Hopefully more devs follow suit and pull traffic away from Fandom.
Also hopeful that they manage to fix the SEO on the site, as Fandom is still the top result for “Vampire Survivors wiki”.
Try the browser add-on Indie Wiki Buddy.
It suggests a better wiki when you browse one on Fandom.
edit: there is an open issue to add the official Vampire Survivors wiki: https://github.com/KevinPayravi/indie-wiki-buddy/issues/1102
Just to add on to this, in those unfortunate cases where there really is only Fandom, you can use an extension like LibRedirect which will redirect any Fandom pages to a breezewiki instance, which is a stripped down, privacy respecting, no BS front end for Fandom.
Why make a Wiki when a shitty Discord server with a clunky search function is easier to set up? Of course it‘s also much less useful, more work to maintain in the long run and a never ending source of drama, but most devs don‘t think that far because they kinda only do it to build a community anyway. Being a source of information is just slapped on but enough reason for them to not set up a wiki or proper forum it seems. Ugh.
Same with the Terraria wiki. Afaik the fandom wiki is mostly abandoned and people moved to the much better gg wiki.
I assume Google prioritizes the wikis that bring in the ad dollars. Not sure if any amount of SEO can change that.
Well, GGG hosts their community wikis since years too…
Based dev. Fuck fextralife and fandom
Wat?! Fandom has ads?! Never saw these. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Best thing that happened to path of exile too, the devs provide the wiki platform for the community
Very based
The Guild Wars 2 (and 1) wiki is also hosted directly by the devs. It’s even accessible via chat command.
The fact that in GW2 you can just type
/wiki subjectand get taken to the wiki page for subject is such an amazing and obvious command I’m surprised more games don’t do it.
Not only that but GW2 also can link items and skills in the chat so that someone else can view them. And the best part is that this also works with the wiki command.
So, for example, you found an item and want to know what it is and what you can use to for, just link it after /wiki and you are redirected to the full page of that item.
Unfortunately, I lately have issues with firefox in which the first wiki command somehow screws with my firefox and thinks that it needs to restart before being able to work correctly.
Goddamn that’s awesome. Had no idea after hundreds of GW2 hours.
Here’s the most useful one, IMO:
/wiki etIt takes you to the event timers page, so you can see when the world events are going to happen.
I also like
/wiki ezdwhich opens a page telling you how to quickly do the daily and weekly objectives.
Same thing happened with minecraft.wiki too, people finally got fed up with fandom’s bullshit
That’s not the same, Mojang isn’t affiliated with the wiki at all.
Same with doomwiki.org and a bunch of others.
osrs.wiki lets just list them all
I’m surprised the OSRS wiki isn’t mentioned more. The game itself is very community oriented as well.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the initiative comes from the OG dev of the game, who is Italian: the efforts we go through since 1996 (all I can remember) to avoid ads and popups are of biblical proportions.
I can remember my father taking the PC away from me as soon as he saw I was exposed to one, going “I can take that away, it will be a minute”. It wasn’t a minute.
They have taken the survivors.wiki domain.
I wonder if they are planning spinoffs with other themes?
Edit: typo
Accountant Survivors coming in October.
survivors.wiki *
Thanks
Love this, and the site looks great. Wonder what software that is. Is it just mediawiki?
Yes.
Ah, perfect, thank you. I was particularly interested because I just recently dabbled with mediawiki and ended up going with dokuwiki.
Very nice to see. Might start playing again to 100% it (yet again) now that there’s an actual useful wiki for it. Always love to see pure media wiki usage. I wish we could just scrub Fandom’s one now.
Another step was made to reclaim the free internet! I bought dlc inside the game and I’m glad I did.
Very nice! This would’ve been helpful when I was platinuming the game last year.
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shouldnt this be built in the game anyway?
It’s still a wiki, I.e. user/community written content.
