From Newsgroup: alt.games.fallout
[Disclaimer: not a Fallout fan; just find Wikia stance somewhat
questionable on more points than one, and think that a modicum
of healthy competition may do them good.]
To quote Agent c [1]:
Our relationship has risen and fallen over the years, but we think it's
safe to say it's either at, or near, an all time low. We no longer
take it for granted that what is good for Wikia is good for us, and are
alarmed about the direction they are taking in many areas.
[...]
As you may recall, during the Featured Video drama we began to
explore our alternatives to Wikia. One of these was to create an
alternative platform under our control, codenamed Exodus.
[...]
Exodus is basically our own server. For Wikis, its running
MediaWiki 1.30, which is the latest stable version of mediawiki
(for comparison, Wikia is running on 1.19). We've also a large
range of plugins and other technologies at our disposal to enhance
the wiki experience further.
[...]
Moving to an independent wiki would not be easy. Yes, we've solved
a lot of the initial problems, and we hope to learn more about wiki
hosting as time goes on. However, jumping would mean we'd likely
have to fight a war on "Search Engine Optimisation" with Wikia --
they wouldn't delete this wiki simply because we'd moved, and they'd
likely be aggressive in trying to replace us. We don't have the
same sort of financial resources to fall back on.
As I see it, one of the resources already available from Exodus
is [2] -- a wiki "for the Divinity series of games" [1].
Either way, I'd like to ask the fans to take care to update any
references you may have on the Web to point to the new site
should the move indeed happen, as it'd be very unfortunate (IMO)
for this endeavor to fail for something as mundane as SEO.
TYC.
[1] Wikia Forces Featured video onto Nukapedia (and "State of the wiki"
and "Exodus") [user blog] / Agent_c. 2018-05-30.
URI:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/?curid=572107
[2] Divinity Wiki -- The World of Rivellon resource anyone can edit.
URI:
https://divinity.nukapedia.wiki/
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