[cubefox]

Why can't they replace the old pages with a link to the new page? Or otherwise remove the contents from the old site?

[xnorswap]

That's considered vandalism of fandom, and probably rightly so.

Could you imagine if someone declared a successor to wikipedia and edited all the pages to redirect?

Sometimes you just have to put the effort into making the new better, and it's a hard long slog especially against a well funded incumbent.

But like all problems in PoE, PoE2 will fix it. ;)

[cubefox]

I mean the Wikipedia content arguably belongs more to the Wikipedia community than to the Wikimedia Foundation... Of course it is hardly possible to gain the approval of a majority of editors.

> But like all problems in PoE, PoE2 will fix it. ;)

Isn't that the game for which Sannikov came up with his new global illumination algorithm? [1] (Apparently yes)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3so7xdZHKxw

[jjmarr]

it already belongs to the Wikipedia community, but it's licensed under a copyleft licence. Ditto for Wikia. Anyone can fork it if they give proper attribution.

[cubefox]

Good point

[Pikamander2]

I tried adding some helpful links to the new Runescape wiki back when the split happened, and within a few hours Fandom had permabanned my decade-old account across their entire network.

Not a huge loss, although it still feels like a bitter ending after I spent years sprucing up a bunch of their wikis.

[yifanl]

Usually attempts to advertise migration efforts on high visibility wikis away from Fandom will be deleted by Fandom staff.

[duskwuff]

And they will remove rights from wiki admins who take steps to advertise alternate resources.