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Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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...

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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.dev 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

I use an adblocker to remove their stupid stream embed

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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.