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Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to
by labster 2y ago
Using any automation to copy from Fandom is prohibited, and they do not provide backups of images and other media. This means that any attempt to copy a wiki to another host is either a manual process that could take days of downloading, or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime.
And then they won’t delete your wiki if the community asks for it. Fandom is hostile to forks.
- technofiend 2y agoIsn't that what a DMCA takedown is for?
- DecentShoes 2y agoUsing automation to scrape lots of sites is prohibited but the AI crawlers seem to get away with it?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoCan my browser not be an AI crawler?
- gruez 2y ago> or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime. I thought the linkedin scraping case set the precedent that anonymous scraping was legal?
- labster 2y agoMaybe it is, I’m old and remember old stuff. Also the rules maybe apply differently under Trump, who knows.
- pabs3 2y agoArchiveTeam have an automatic process to upload wikis to archive.org, and it works fine for Fandom hosts. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Wikibot https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Wikibot