Comment on Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is it a monopoly when mediawiki is FOSS? Lots of fan wikis use that instead.

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Monopolies aren’t defined by the availability of alternatives. It’s based on the market share captured by a single entity. We’d need to see statistics to determine if it’s a total monopoly, but I’m not aware of many other hosting platforms for game wikis. Maybe fextralife?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fextralife is utter shit. Always giving you the most unrelated information in the longest amount of time all while being forced to watch a stream you don’t care about.

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I use an adblocker to remove their stupid stream embed

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I think hosting is the thing that they’ve captured, far more than the notion of a domain-specific wiki. Of course, there’s nothing stopping an aspiring wiki admin from hosting on a platform that isn’t targeted at game wikis.

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• ryapric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was about to reply and say “nuh uh, the Minecraft wiki isn’t a Fandom one”, but jesus you’re right.

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  • bobbysq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It used to be independent until Curse started Gamepedia and then got bought by Wikia.

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