Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fandom (previously Wikia) is an extremely shitty service with low-quality wikis mostly consisting of content copied from independent wikis and a terrible layout that only exists to amplify their overwhelming advertising.

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  • Tortellinius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While this is true, the majority of the wikis are not at all low quality. Some are the only ones existing for a topic. The wikis are community-based, after all.

    But its easy to vandalize and is highly profit-driven. The fandom wikis are filled with ads that absolutely destroy navigation. Infamous is the video ad that scrolls you up automatically in the middle of reading once it finishes. You have to pause it to read the article with no interruption.

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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    my one weird trick for using fandom.com is to disable javascript for that domain.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What if they put anubis on it ?

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      • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Anubis only does a proof of work challenge if you lack a specific cookie that it gives you. You can temporarily enable JavaScript, pass the challenge, get the cookie, then disable JavaScript.

        I use uBlock Origin, btw, to make selectively enabling/disabling JavaScript per domain a simple two-click task.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they captured the “niche wiki” market as wikia, then rebranded and started serving shittons of ads. the vim wiki is unusable these days because it runs like ass and looks like a gamer rgb nightmare

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s an addon for that, Indie Wiki Buddy.
    It tries to redirect you to non fandom/fextralife wikis if they exist, and if not, it proxies fandom wikis through BreezeWiki which just displays the content.

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