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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by duskwuff on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:42PM (#36364323)
Worse yet: Fandom has a policy of not deleting inactive wikis, even if the community has deliberately abandoned them to move elsewhere, and will treat any attempt to advertise that another wiki has been created as vandalism and will block users (even wiki admins!) who attempt to do so.

This means that, if a community does decide to move their wiki off of Fandom, they have an uphill battle to "beat" their old wiki in search results. In many cases, Google will treat the new wiki as duplicate content and suppress it in search results unless pages are substantially rewritten.

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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by iamacyborg on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:32PM (#36364850)
Even worse, Google actively penalises wikis that choose to fork from Fandom.
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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by arp242 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:14PM (#36365714)
They penalise duplicate content because 999 out of 1000 times it's spam. It's a bit of an issue forking any site, and one reason you might be better off just starting over.
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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by iamacyborg on Saturday June 17, 2023 @08:03AM (#36369491)
Easier said than done when you’re dealing with tens of thousands of pages and a decade of content.
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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by resolutebat on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:21PM (#36365763)
The algorithm penalizes copies of content that are newer than the original, which punishes spam and forks alike.
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Re:Miraheze to Shut Down by iamacyborg on Saturday June 17, 2023 @08:04AM (#36369498)
Yep, with no recourse for manual intervention, even if the new site is better in all ways.
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