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KevinPayravi / indie-wiki-buddy

Browser extension that automatically notifies and redirects you to independent wikis.
https://getindie.wiki
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Add a wiki: Hypixel Skyblock Wiki #296

Open KevinPayravi opened 11 months ago

KevinPayravi commented 11 months ago

An anonymous user has submitted a new wiki via our submission form.

Link to origin wiki: https://hypixel-skyblock.fandom.com Link to destination (independent) wiki: https://wiki.hypixel.net

Note from submitter: "Independent (wiki.hypixel.net) is hosted and maintained by the hypixel itself, the company/server responsible for the game (Hypixel skyblock)."

Hans5958 commented 10 months ago

Two cents: With the current nature of wiki.hypixel.net, I would argue that the Fandom wiki is more independent than wiki.hypixel.net, due to wiki.hypixel.net being managed by smaller portion of members, while the public have to report it as a "bug report," not by editing it by themselves.

KevinPayravi commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the feedback @Hans5958, it's always helpful when evaluating submissions.

I share the same concern about the wiki not being open to public editing (and it's why I've hesitated to add it).

That being said, I've decided to include this wiki after looking into it more. There's enough here that I think it's a net-positive that will help users.

monkeysHK commented 9 months ago

I am a contributor of the Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki for a few years. I will refer to it as the "community wiki" in my discussion. The wiki started by Hypixel will be refered to as the "official wiki".

I doubt the move to redirect users of the IWB extension to the official wiki site is fair. To understand this, I provide my summary. The official wiki was created as a separate project (chosen to exclude involvement of the community wiki). For this reason, the two sites are run by separate teams of people, and have different approaches towards operation. For example, the official wiki was accessible only to its selected contributors at the time before its launch date in 2022, and has since remained closed to direct public contribution. The community wiki has adhered to open collaboration since establishment, by means of contribution, decision making, and management.

Regarding points made in the last comment, the official wiki has the credit of involving selected volunteer writers in their development, being capable of releasing information as an official source, and being capable of innovating on new methods to replicate features provided on the community wiki to provide similar experiences. I believe that the high demand of the request is driven by the prominence of the game and the general resentment against the Fandom platform (understandable! but discouraging in this unique circumstance, also).

I understand that this situation is not well-understood for most people outside of the game community itself, and that the specifity to this circumstance makes it a uniquely difficult consideration. The goal of for IWB is to help users discover independently run wikis. The official wiki, to their credit, already has good SEO and the expertise to maintain that, with game integration that helps drawing users in. As an IWB user, I appreciate having an extension that supports wikis which have migrated from ad-run wiki farms (it may be us some day), but adding support to the wiki project from Hypixel can neither achieve the aforementioned goal nor fairness.

As for the game community of Hypixel SkyBlock, the choice of source largely remains as a consumer decision as to which is a "go-to" source. Given the extension by default treats a redirect by crossing out and blocking a link, and showing a banner for the alternate site, I think one for Hypixel SkyBlock should remain unadded for IWB.

KevinPayravi commented 9 months ago

@monkeysHK Thank you for the details, much appreciated. I can agree with that and won't include Hypixel in the next update. I'll leave this issue open for visibility and for any further comments.