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I love when somebody disrupts a hidden market like that. Fandom had terrible UXs for years, but nobody seemed to care enough to make an alternative. I'd assume most users are not engineers/founders, so the opportunity was hidden for a while.

In hindsight it makes total sense.

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There have been several competitors formed in response to or predating Wikia/Fandom over the years, particularly Gamepedia/Curse Media (which Fandom acquired). Fandom also acquired other game-focused community knowledge resources, like GameFAQs and Giant Bomb.

There's also now wiki.gg, which focuses on official wikis run by game developers and was launched after the Gamepedia acquisition by Gamepedia's founder and a former Fandom president. Several wikis are on independent MediaWiki farms like Miraheze or ShoutWiki, and numerous others self-host entirely independently.

This Weird Gloop effort seems to be more like wiki.gg, but for community-run wikis rather than gamedev-run wikis — bespoke relationships with communities that want to migrate or relaunch, rather than open sign-ups to a platform like Miraheze or ShoutWiki.

Ehm. This is nothing new.

https://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Wiki:Departure_from_Wikia

https://www.niwanetwork.org/

etc.

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