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Hi wiki friends! We moved the GTA Wiki off Fandom last weekend, so that’s kicked off a new round of wiki admins finding my blog post and asking for advice on how to get their wikis off Fandom too. Since I started offering wiki-moving advice in 2024, somewhere around 100 people have hit us up in private, and I’ve realized we’re saying a lot of the same things over and over, most of which could easily just be somewhere public.

Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in the last few months.

Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that??

I want this to kick off a new era where communities and developers take control from Fandom, and make some really great wikis. We’ve already been doing a bit of this, starting when we helped the Minecraft Wiki leave Fandom, but I think it’s time for me (and the rest of our group) to be more explicit about what we want to do.