Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom

Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by paranoidxprod on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:08AM (#41799004)

A few years ago, Path of Exile migrated from the fandom to a new site. GGG (Path of Exile's company) even decided to host the new wiki on their servers (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3292958)! At this point, the new wiki ranks higher then the old one, but for a time it was an issue. Interesting to see more cases of games wikis leaving Fandom with how horrible the site is, and hopefully this is just the beginning of a trend.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by ykonstant on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:11AM (#41799030)

Fandom PoE still pollutes the top of Google searches :(

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by paranoidxprod on Thursday October 10, 2024 @11:29AM (#41799885)

Just tested a bunch and it seems like `path of exile [skill/currency]` usually ranks the Fandom higher while `poe [skill/currency]` ranks the new wiki higher which is why I never noticed (I actually never noticed because I block the PoE Fandom and pin the new wiki on Kagi)

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by ykonstant on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:45PM (#41800703)

That's good info.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by RheingoldRiver on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:19AM (#41807425)

You may also want to install: https://getindie.wiki/

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by dpbriggs on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:31PM (#41801791)

There is an extension which automatically redirects you from Fandom to the new wiki. While that's convenient it probably helps Fandom stay near the top.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by iamacyborg on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:42PM (#41802697)

It does, if you’re clicking on those fandom links and not subsequently providing any negative signals back to Google it’ll assume that’s where you wanted to go.

It was and remains a worthwhile trade-off to ensure folks got to the right wiki though.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by entrox on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:07PM (#41802284)

Consider switching to Kagi with its feature to personalize your results by biasing certain domains.

I've configured it to lower results from *.fandom.com and am really happy about it.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by iamacyborg on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:42PM (#41802701)

And we just launched the wiki for PoE2 which GGG are hosting for the community.

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by BlueTemplar on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:07AM (#41808045)

I think you mean "we are about to launch", since there is no information about it anywhere ?

(I'm guessing it does technically exist online, but access to it is limited to closed beta players (under NDA) for now ?)

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by iamacyborg on Friday October 11, 2024 @01:03PM (#41811230)

Hasn’t been announced by GGG yet but it’s up and available. No NDA breaching content, editors are only adding information that is publicly available.

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by BlueTemplar on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:02PM (#41812407)

Right, so hardly anyone linking and so no presence on search engines yet.

(As a contributor for the wiki for PoE1 I really should have tried the obvious link... less obvious on the phone though !)

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Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom by iamacyborg on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:37AM (#41817190)

Yeah, lots of work to be done on the visibility front but we’re in a better place with this one than the fork was at the same time.

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