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Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Here's hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria's contributors have a while ago.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"But ever since the acquisition contributors and editors have been uneasy about Fandom's big money owners applying the nipple clamps and, ..."

The article is worth reading just for that paragraph, if nothing else.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"There is also deep disquiet among wiki editors over a recent controversy with the McDonalds wiki, in which Fandom replaced the existing Grimace page to a paid-for McDonalds advertorial, without the consent or knowledge of the McDonalds wiki editors. No I'm not making this up."

Then again, this one came in in a close second.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

"42 Minecraft wiki contributors and editors have voted to tell Fandom to fork off"

And this comes in at number three.