Petra_Silie said:
The Witcher wiki without Game Widow
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I am honoured
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Petra_Silie said:
Blatant adverts which devour up the entire Witcher pages and spoil the layout
Innovations and changes without talking to us authors or asking us.
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I cannot say that Curse has no ads, but you can use an ad blocker. I can tell you that they do not hijack the entire wiki skin for ads though, as Wikia sometimes does.
Petra_Silie said:
Deleting of pictures without further reason than 'offence of GTC'. There wasn't even a contact possibility to ask for reasons.
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That was the last straw for me
Petra_Silie said:
So from all these irritations I'm quite happy with the move to curse but…
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Yay!!!
Petra_Silie said:
What happens to the original amount of content that remains at Wikia?
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Sadly, the content that was at Wikia stays at Wikia. There's nothing we can do about that. But we don't have to contribute to it (I know I certainly can't, even if i wanted to, which of course i do not).
Petra_Silie said:
If the true Witcher authors continue their work on the Curse wikis, all kind of trolls can meddle in the Witcher wikis at Wikia and spoil everything. So there will be two kind of Witcher wikis: one which gets neglected at Wikia and one which grows at Curse aka one "right" and one "false" wiki.
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There is every likelihood that this will happen. For one thing, Wikia will either assign some of its staff to try to maintain the wiki while they try to find new admins and contributors or people who didn't like how it was before could jump in and make it their own. I can assure you that Wikia has no Witcher experts on their staff though, and in fact, not that many good wiki editors. They hire people who work for cheap and are willing to follow orders, not people with actual wiki skills.
Petra_Silie said:
How do people gain the knowledge where the "right" wiki has gone, in particular new visitors of the Witcher wikis?
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Right here! CD Projekt has endorsed the move to Curse and their sites link to Curse. This is also the main site for the latest Witcher information.
Petra_Silie said:
When these people google for a Witcher Wiki or any kind of information they will probably get results for the Witcher wiki at Wikia which actually becomes more and abandoned. New visitors may then think: omg, what's that? It's useless and crap.
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It's true that for now and for the next little while, Wikia will still win the google "war", but as we continue to improve the Curse wikis, their ranking will fall and ours will rise. I'm already seeing the English (Curse) wiki rising in searches (just this morning, i looked up Witcher Steam Achievements and the Curse wiki was #3 ... not yet #1, but moving up quickly)
Petra_Silie said:
And somewhere on page number
*don't know / far behind* of the google results snoozes the Curse wiki but no one knows.
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Again, that's up to us ... as we continue to contribute to the wikis at Curse, the Wikia wikis will indeed fall into a state of neglect (and likely be polluted with such features as Wikia's "Top Ten Lists", unwanted extra buttons and the rest)
No wiki farm is perfect ... if i was rich I'd host all the Witcher wikis myself with no ads, but sadly, i am not rich. The Curse wiki farm is less intrusive than Wikia and aware of the games' (and books') mature content.
I dearly wish i could just move the wikis wholesale, leaving nothing at Wikia, but even if we deleted every single document, Wikia would just restore them all from backup .. and they would, just to be spiteful, which is what they are right now.
I hope that answers your questions and eases your concerns.
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