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Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait a multibillion corporation hosts an official wiki on fandom???

it's not official in that way no. "official" in this case is being used to mean "this is the wiki everyone uses, and which is acknowledged to be the Minecraft wiki"―but it has no formal ties with Mojang or Microsoft. some people have suggested they finally make the relation official to get the hell off Fandom, but i'm not sure how much Microsoft cares.

[-] NekomimiNebula@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The real reasons why the wiki is no longer official (because everyone seems to have their own version of events) is here, but here's the cliffnotes:

  • Mojang/Microsoft's legal team contacted them notifying them that the contract they signed with Curse in 2011 is being terminated (probably because Curse was no longer the owners after being bought by Fandom)
  • As a result, all of the official logos/artwork/anything copyrighted by them could not be used legally.
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