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KevinPayravi / indie-wiki-buddy

Browser extension that automatically notifies and redirects you to independent wikis.
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Add a wiki: Mega Man Knowledge Base #266

Open NicoTheCinderace opened 1 year ago

NicoTheCinderace commented 1 year ago

Link to origin wiki: https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Mega_Man_Knowledge_Base Link to destination (independent) wiki: https://megaman.miraheze.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Knowledge_Base

1bcb commented 1 year ago

Note that there is another Mega Man wiki here: https://megamanwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page The Miraheze one has more articles, though I'm not sure if it is more complete in other ways.

KevinPayravi commented 1 year ago

I'm leaning towards declining this one. My understanding is that the Knowledge Base was forked to Miraheze in April 2021 by a single user, and very few (if any) editors migrated over. Since then, the Fandom wiki has grown to 5,983 articles while the Miraheze remains at < 5,400.

Generally, successful forks need to have buy-in from their community to succeed, which isn't the case here. A similar example is Minecraft Fandom Wiki; back in 2021, a single user forked it to https://minecraft.miraheze.org/, and it's just kind of sat there since. Now, in the last few months, the Minecraft Wiki community as a whole decided to fork and move to https://minecraft.wiki/, which has been a very successful launch and has been added to IWB.