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[–] overkill0485 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Aside from self-hosting your own wiki, https://wiki.gg/ seems to be the popular option. Terraria's official wiki is now https://terraria.wiki.gg/ and it's great.

[–] SPOOPYGHOST 1 points 8 months ago

The main WoW wiki has moved to wiki.gg too :)

[–] bingrazer 1 points 8 months ago

I’ve also used miraheze (https://miraheze.org)

[–] MargotRobbie 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Independent wikis for those media franchises that have them.

[–] Vipsu 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Does this mean self-hosting the wiki?
Because that increase the barrier of entry by tenfold as a lot of publishers/game studios do not host their own wikis.

[–] MargotRobbie 5 points 8 months ago

Or use a wiki host that's not affiliated with Fandom.

But they did buy out Gamepedia too...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

for Minecraft, minecraft.wiki

for others i don't know, some will have alternatives and others won't...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It really just depends on the fandom. Three more I know of are Bulbapedia for Pokemon, The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages for the Elder Scrolls, and Wookiepedia for Star Wars. They are all very comprehensive and functional.

Edit: Forgot about the Super Mario Wiki too.

[–] XbSuper 4 points 8 months ago

Unless the game your playing made their own, or someone else decided to self host and actually fill it with content (and finding it can be a pain), there isn't one.

Hoping someone knows a good fallout wiki, I hate using fandom, but it's the only one I can find with good info.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

Self-hosting using MediaWiki