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Several years ago the Touhou wiki left Fandom/Wikia for their own hosting. The Wikia admins responded by seizing control of the old wiki, removing any redirects
by jmillikin 4y ago
Several years ago the Touhou wiki left Fandom/Wikia for their own hosting. The Wikia admins responded by seizing control of the old wiki, removing any redirects or references to the new location, and banning the old admins.
The community largely followed to the new domain, leaving the Wikia version in a sort of dormant state filled with spam and weird "original fan-creation" pages.
https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/44prw7/what_went_wrong_with_the_touhou_wiki_relocation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/44prw7/what_went_wr...
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Touhou_Wiki/Archive_3#Wait..._So_this_is_a_War.3F https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Touhou_Wiki/Archive_3#Wa...
- vintermann 4y agoYes, this has been a complaint against Wikia/Fandom from the start. The accusation was that Jimmy Wales favoured the deletionist faction on Wikipedia in order to push as much content as he could get away with over to Wikia, where he could monetize it. Once a wiki had been created there, it would be very hard for a different wiki to compete, since Wikipedia lent a huge part of its SEO juice to them. Wikia/Fandom regularly takes over wikis that try to migrate off the site and scrub the attempt. The biggest recently was the Terraria wiki. The fandom wiki still outranks the official in Google.
- Suzuran 4y agoIt took a couple years for the current Touhou Wiki to gain traction over its former Wikia site. I want to say this coincided with Google changing PageRank to give less weight to large numbers of links from sites in the same second-level domain.
- Suzuran 4y agoI was temporary host after the move. We had IPs from Wikia's office network vandalizing pages afterward. They literally paid people to vandalize us because we dared detract from Lord Jimbo's holy ad revenue.