Please for the love of god, if you value whatever media or whatever you're creating a wiki for:
DO NOT USE FANDOM WIKIA
Not just because Fandom wiki is just straight up adware. But because they will happily take all your rights as a wiki owner away and give it to a corporation in the name of profits, like they did to the McDonald's wiki or y'know, completely destroy LGBTQ+ wikis on many identities (including removing nearly every aroacespec labels including demisexual, greyromantic, and many other labels, including many more I used!) all without the permission or consent of the admins of the wiki to "make LGBTQ+ identities easier to understand" and replaced the admins with their own chosen ones, of which iirc were very questionable in their behavior.
"What are alternatives then?"
Fandom Wikia runs off a FREE open-source software known as MediaWiki, it's the same thing Wikipedia, Bulbapedia, and many others use.
This means that you can host your own wiki, or use any other wiki farm such as Miraheze, which is what the wiki I help run uses.
The best part about WikiMedia is that something made on one wiki can be cross-compatible with another. We often use and base our templates off of other wikis, and it makes it somewhat easier to transfer from FANDOM if necessary.
Stop FANDOM's monopoly over wikis, they'll stab you in the back as soon as it's a choice between the user or profits.
Miraheze is a great platform and has a similar set up to FANDOM so it's easy for migrating users to learn. If you haven't already, PLEASE join us in prioritizing independent wikis running on non profit platforms. This includes going to an independent wiki for information rather than a FANDOM one, even if the FANDOM one shows up higher in search results.
Indie wiki buddy is a great browser extension to use to redirect you; they have a database of registered independent wikis and it's growing every day. Just last month, our wiki was added to the list - look it's even at the top (it's sorted alphabetically)!
Our url is adventurezonewiki.miraheze.org
Again, if you want to want to support independent wikis, it doesn't need to only be by editing. Just using them instead of the outdated, overcrowded FANDOM counterparts is a great step ahead. People put together this information because they care about it, and want others to be able to use it, and it's there for you to use-- and if you see a need for a revision or a citation, or even a page that doesn't even exist yet-- make the edit! You don't even need an account. Wiki editing can be daunting but it is a huge collaborative effort, from using it as a resource, to commenting, to editing, to administration -- it is all a part of having a successful wiki.





