Thread:Virgalyssa/@comment-38365628-20190131050350/@comment-38365628-20190202013747

Having spent 3+ years with Facebook and Workplace, as well as an additional 4 handling social media and news for the Department of Defense, I am well aware of what the impact to SEO a migration to an independent wiki has. Of course, this doesn’t factor in the other independent wiki projects I maintain, but that’s neither here nor there.

Of course, this is an action that is already in progress, and with a switch to a more noticeable and recognizable domain name (underwiki.net), it is going to be an easier and more natural transition for users than the current site name.

Additionally, should the staff go with the move, I would be more than willing to provide bureaucrat level staff access to the site’s CPanel, which in addition to a few other tools gives you direct access to the database and filesystems. I will have to make sure that I myself can trust these individuals, however I see no issue with sharing that access to other higher-level staff.

With regards to increasing visibility, I used a mix of tactics when I was building my other wiki. I’d be more willing to discuss them over private message, however.

However, if you don’t mind me asking, what are the real benefits that fandom has that platforms using mediawiki and the like can’t provide either natively or through extensions and modifications? Because quite frankly, Fandom/Wikia are at best the blogspot equivalent of wikis and, at worst wikifarms which care nothing for the communities that use them and use the fan interest to monetize the fuck out of everything. Remember, it wasn’t even a few months ago that you couldn’t navigate a wikia site on mobile without getting pagejacked to scam sites at least once. They got to that point and stayed there for years because nobody can tell them not to. Believing they won’t do it again is nothing short of wishful thinking. Having quit Facebook over the treatment of users, I can see when these trends are starting (or continuing in Fandom’s case)

In the end, the offer will remain so long as I have a need for staff, but for now I just have to focus on populating the wiki and building a userbase for it. Having built a stable 1k visitors a day for a wiki on a WAY less noteworthy topic, you just have to prove to the community that you actually care about and listen to what they want.