Thread:Virgalyssa/@comment-38365628-20190131050350/@comment-27108700-20190202003327

As it currently stands, it is a definitive no. I've discussed this with other staff members and we're not seeing any real benefit behind the move. The Undertale and Deltarune wiki communities have hardly complained about our current host, Fandom, and they are certainly utilizing features no other wiki hosts (or independent wikis have). Furthermore, none of the staff have any knowledge of what your background is, or what your qualifications are. By moving, we would be giving you an immense amount of control, and would have to place our trust in someone we do not know at all. This is a rather sketchy prospect, and we would have to be absolutely certain that you would not act with malicious intent and we could trust you fully. We do not hold any ill will against you; we'd just like to be cautious.

A big con of moving would be retaining the rank in search engines. Being a webmaster, you probably know SEO isn't about telling Google "index my site" and many wikis that forked from Fandom had to fight with their Fandom counterpart's rank in search engines. One example of a wiki that succeeded in ranking higher than their Fandom counterpart in search engines is the RuneScape Wiki, whose move was supported by Jagex, RuneScape's developer, themselves, along with a great amount of advertising the new site in the enormous community that is RuneScape's. On top of this, they also inserted links to the new wiki wherever they could on Fandom and also ran several vandalbots on the Fandom counterpart. So yes, forking while retaining the rank is possible, but it is usually stressful and requires a big community and developer support to actually execute properly (which Undertale doesn't have).

That said, even though we have no interest in moving at the moment and feel the cons heavily outweigh the pros, we'd be interested in hearing what benefits you see in moving. We are also interested in hearing how you expect to overcome the issues of wiki's visibility in the community, as well as in search engines. Thank you for your time.