User blog comment:Withersoul 235/COMMUNITY DISCUSSION — Leaving FANDOM (Fork)/@comment-24530269-20181010125044

Alright. Here goes.

Somewhat ironic because I'm the one to announce this but I oppose. Granted, it is worth a shot to try out something new, and I'll definitely assist in setting up the base. But I highly doubt it'll blast off.

Everyone here is used to FANDOM's Blogs, Comments and Message Walls. I'm pretty sure no one wants to use solely those kinda boring talk pages and work on a wiki where being encyclopedic with no off-topic or social elements is the sole premise.

Not to mention only half of this wiki - or even less - is actually here to legitimately contribute. Other unit is only here to roleplay, discuss Glitchtale, be social and have fun.

The reason why independent wikis like Sonic Retro and Sega Retro, the Nintendo wikis (e.g. Icaruspedia, SmashWiki, the Super Mario Wiki and WikiBound), the Gamepedias about Minecraft and it's mods, Terraria and more and the recently forked Runescape Wikis are so big and succesfull is not only because those topics are globally famous and acclaimed, but also because there are far more fans actually interested in managing series-specific wikipedias.

This is not the case here. Glitchtale is popular, but to a far, far, FAR lesser extent than the aforementioned topics, and even then only a tiny fraction of this following seems to be legitimately interested in managing a wiki.

What I'm intending to get to here is that an independent Glitchtale wiki would very honestly, be one, massive, humiliating failiure. A flop that would die before it was even born.

The Glitchtale Wikia here would attract far more contributors, due to the Wikia network plus it's exclusive (often social) features unique to Wikia.

Tl;dr I'm sorry Slender but as Doork said, this is a very bad idea. Forking can turn up great with giant-ass communities like Runescape and Fallout, but in this context, it's a benefitless waste of time, space and effort.

Also, on a side note about your wiki killing plans, you can't do that either. Going by FANDOM's fork policies, closing of wikis after a fork is disallowed, as is trying to completely kill a wiki just to so people would follow. Preventing adoption on purpose will also get you in a not so pleasant confrontation with the staff - I myself am in a situation of "X doesn't want to give new life to a wiki he doesn't care about anymore" with another community and it's really not beneficial for anyone. Heck, because it would be very unlikely that this community would follow, all you would do with completely throwing the wiki into chaos to kill it is scare everyone away. They wouldn't come to the external wiki, and they wouldn't come back. Because who would want to stay in a disorganized wiki purposely ruined and destroyed by its leader? You'd ruin your name, the name of Glitchtale wikis and a lot more.

What you could do is make the wiki, appoint new leaders in charge of the wikia here and then simply leave. Pulling the entire site down in favour of the other one however, is not the way.

If you want to get on a new leaf, then go ahead. I'll assist in setting up the base, and assist whoever's in charge here, wether that be Kindness or not, in operating this place.

But completely replacing sites and forcing the community to come over is a terrible idea and will only lead to chaos.

I wouldn't mind creating a second wiki, but abandoning and ruining this one until it's irreversibly dead and forcing everyone to tag along I greatly oppose.