Has anyone else noticed that Wikis for most games just aren’t as complete anymore?

I’m the one helping to fill in stuff these days when I swear most games had pretty fully Wiki pages within a week of release. Have most of these just moved to actual Gaming article websites? They sure as hell haven’t gone to Gamefaqs lol.

I’ve recently played Diablo 4, Remnant 2, 30XX, Armored Core 6, and just started Have a Nice Death… and I’ve had to help with additions on nearly every free Wiki… Never used to have to do this…

  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    10 months ago

    Because monopoly.

    Shit, Mojang used to maintain their own wiki for Minecraft, but it was dropped and migrated to Fandom and now none of us can have nice things.

    • ryapric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I was about to reply and say “nuh uh, the Minecraft wiki isn’t a Fandom one”, but jesus you’re right.

      • bobbysq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        It used to be independent until Curse started Gamepedia and then got bought by Wikia.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      How is it a monopoly when mediawiki is FOSS? Lots of fan wikis use that instead.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        9 months ago

        Monopolies aren’t defined by the availability of alternatives. It’s based on the market share captured by a single entity. We’d need to see statistics to determine if it’s a total monopoly, but I’m not aware of many other hosting platforms for game wikis. Maybe fextralife?

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          Fextralife is utter shit. Always giving you the most unrelated information in the longest amount of time all while being forced to watch a stream you don’t care about.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I think hosting is the thing that they’ve captured, far more than the notion of a domain-specific wiki. Of course, there’s nothing stopping an aspiring wiki admin from hosting on a platform that isn’t targeted at game wikis.