What happened to the fandom wiki?

[Cardboard]

I'm reading the wiki and its been edited, I see some images have characters from different communities including Skibidi Toilet, and the wiki for the ERROR CUBE is an outright lie, its talking about a secret "cube code" where if you complete it you can get food from Karl himself??

Also a crafting terminal, its basically every other terminal according to what I'm reading, and you can get recipes by "Recipes are unlocked by completing certain hidden achievements. Some examples include killing a Glyphid Dreadnought with a Glyphid Bulk Detonator, dying from a fall of at least 100m, killing a Korlok Tyrant-Weed with a Resupply Pod, or completing a mission by only using a Pickaxe." also also the image for the terminal has the wrong font.

https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Wiki
https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Error_Cube
https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Crafting_Terminal

[kestrel]

it's been vandalized, it will continue to be vandalized because nobody cares enough to shut it down, use this instead

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wikigg-redirect/cngoemokfjekjkmajenlaokhnmmiinca

[Derpykat5]

Like many, many, many Fandom wikis it's being relentlessly vandalized to drive people away from the Fandom domain and to the official wikis. The reasons for this are numerous, but the dislike for Fandom is justified (even if the reaction isn't).

[Chris!!]

Fandom was never interested in the legitimicy of their articles to begin with, it's in their financial interest to get as much traffic as possible to get that ad-revenue - that's why they allow all that misinformation to fester, or even encourage it to drive up the SEO on their articles.

If this is to stop, GSG would have to put a link to the real wiki in the ESC menu in-game, and less importantly on their Discord and the other forums to significantly boost traffic to it.

[Chris!!]

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Like many, many, many Fandom wikis it's being relentlessly vandalized to drive people away from the Fandom domain and to the official wikis. The reasons for this are numerous, but the dislike for Fandom is justified (even if the reaction isn't).

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

[Derpykat5]

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Like many, many, many Fandom wikis it's being relentlessly vandalized to drive people away from the Fandom domain and to the official wikis. The reasons for this are numerous, but the dislike for Fandom is justified (even if the reaction isn't).

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

I never claimed the vandalization was effective - just the reasons behind it. I agree that it largely backfires and is unproductive as a whole.

[Chris!!]

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

I never claimed the vandalization was effective - just the reasons behind it. I agree that it largely backfires and is unproductive as a whole.

I was adding to your statement, not accusing you.

[MeGoodEnglish]

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Like many, many, many Fandom wikis it's being relentlessly vandalized to drive people away from the Fandom domain and to the official wikis. The reasons for this are numerous, but the dislike for Fandom is justified (even if the reaction isn't).

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

maybe, but I dont see it to be good in the long run.

The vandalizing of fandom, often by community themselves, is just to show that fandom itself is just not reliable and to knock it off as a stable source of information. Many community still relies on fandom, and might be the only wiki they have, but those who moved on and make their own alternative, the vandalizing is the answer so people can move on for good.

Just for those who dont follow the story of fandom, its very profit driven, resource hungry website because it spam you with ads, that couldnt care less about the community that host their information there. Vandalizing it is so easy, and false information are easily posted in fandom, heck some of the website official feature "quick answers" using AI to answer your question basically spew out gibberish. Many more problems to list, but basically its just bad and piggy ride the community for information, at the same time cutting their legs off.

Anyway, the higher traffic is just like people gathering to see when there is accident. The spectacle of something burning down. More attention? Sure. Sustainable? Not. Just enjoy the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and let people slowly realize fandom is ♥♥♥♥. When they need an accurate information, they'll find the alternatives.

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by MeGoodEnglish:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

maybe, but I dont see it to be good in the long run.

The vandalizing of fandom, often by community themselves, is just to show that fandom itself is just not reliable and to knock it off as a stable source of information. Many community still relies on fandom, and might be the only wiki they have, but those who moved on and make their own alternative, the vandalizing is the answer so people can move on for good.

Just for those who dont follow the story of fandom, its very profit driven, resource hungry website because it spam you with ads, that couldnt care less about the community that host their information there. Vandalizing it is so easy, and false information are easily posted in fandom, heck some of the website official feature "quick answers" using AI to answer your question basically spew out gibberish. Many more problems to list, but basically its just bad and piggy ride the community for information, at the same time cutting their legs off.

Anyway, the higher traffic is just like people gathering to see when there is accident. The spectacle of something burning down. More attention? Sure. Sustainable? Not. Just enjoy the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and let people slowly realize fandom is ♥♥♥♥. When they need an accurate information, they'll find the alternatives.

It will be sustainable as long as new players join the community, which means it's sustained as long as the game is played.

So no, the fandom wiki - griefed or not - is bad in absolutely every way.
Just tell everyone to move to wiki.gg and not give *any* kind of traffic to the fandom one.

[Chris!!]

Originally posted by MeGoodEnglish:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Ironically the people vandalizing the articles are only boosting the site's traffic, and by extension their SEO, and by further extension their ad-revenue from Fandom being shown first when information of a game is being searched for.

maybe, but I dont see it to be good in the long run.

The vandalizing of fandom, often by community themselves, is just to show that fandom itself is just not reliable and to knock it off as a stable source of information. Many community still relies on fandom, and might be the only wiki they have, but those who moved on and make their own alternative, the vandalizing is the answer so people can move on for good.

Just for those who dont follow the story of fandom, its very profit driven, resource hungry website because it spam you with ads, that couldnt care less about the community that host their information there. Vandalizing it is so easy, and false information are easily posted in fandom, heck some of the website official feature "quick answers" using AI to answer your question basically spew out gibberish. Many more problems to list, but basically its just bad and piggy ride the community for information, at the same time cutting their legs off.

Anyway, the higher traffic is just like people gathering to see when there is accident. The spectacle of something burning down. More attention? Sure. Sustainable? Not. Just enjoy the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and let people slowly realize fandom is ♥♥♥♥. When they need an accurate information, they'll find the alternatives.

It doesn't take outlandish misinformation to convince players with enough knowledge to know misinformation when they see it that they should avoid the site, when it's already riddled with ads and links to unrelated game media and a better wiki already exists. Nobody wants to stick around for the spectacle, it's been going on already for years, and those that still do are most likely the same people that wants to perpetuate misinformation or vandalism with the same level of effort and creativity as an attention starved teenager.

No, the new players with not enough knowledge of the game to spot misinformation is gonna be eating up on all that garbage when they try to research the game, and as explained above since the game will keep getting new players they will flock to Fandom since it shows it up first, thanks to all the misinformation boosting the site's SEO. As long as they keep the misinformation plausible to new players they will keep doing it and keep giving that hellsite revenue. It's all by design.

[FDR'sThinkTank]

Maybe Ghost Ship Games will expand the DRG-Dex in game to include more detailed data for players and circumvent the vandalism.

[phenir]

Originally posted by FDR'sThinkTank:

Maybe Ghost Ship Games will expand the DRG-Dex in game to include more detailed data for players and circumvent the vandalism.

They already circumvented it by using wiki.gg instead

[FDR'sThinkTank]

Originally posted by phenir:

Originally posted by FDR'sThinkTank:

Maybe Ghost Ship Games will expand the DRG-Dex in game to include more detailed data for players and circumvent the vandalism.

They already circumvented it by using wiki.gg instead

My point is Ghost Ship Games HAS the data, the game is their property, they can build the data into the game so players can view it. The Wikipedia, no matter where it goes, is a community project that reverse engineers this information to share it. Ghost Ship Games could easily upgrade the internal Archives to do the heavy lifting and even make a phone app for people who want to access it outside of the game.

Oh wait.. they don't even really have to do it themselves: Sell the rights for the App to a third party, and let them update the information with a bit of oversight from key GSG employees. They could easily sell such a product. The fans would love it.

[SCamp]

Originally posted by FDR'sThinkTank:

Originally posted by phenir:

They already circumvented it by using wiki.gg instead

My point is Ghost Ship Games HAS the data, the game is their property, they can build the data into the game so players can view it. The Wikipedia, no matter where it goes, is a community project that reverse engineers this information to share it. Ghost Ship Games could easily upgrade the internal Archives to do the heavy lifting and even make a phone app for people who want to access it outside of the game.

Oh wait.. they don't even really have to do it themselves: Sell the rights for the App to a third party, and let them update the information with a bit of oversight from key GSG employees. They could easily sell such a product. The fans would love it.

This is both a waste of time and money.

[FDR'sThinkTank]

Originally posted by SCamp:

Originally posted by FDR'sThinkTank:

My point is Ghost Ship Games HAS the data, the game is their property, they can build the data into the game so players can view it. The Wikipedia, no matter where it goes, is a community project that reverse engineers this information to share it. Ghost Ship Games could easily upgrade the internal Archives to do the heavy lifting and even make a phone app for people who want to access it outside of the game.

Oh wait.. they don't even really have to do it themselves: Sell the rights for the App to a third party, and let them update the information with a bit of oversight from key GSG employees. They could easily sell such a product. The fans would love it.

This is both a waste of time and money.

You might as well be describing all video games with that attitude.

This could be a revenue stream for Ghost Ship Games and they don't even have to personally devise it. Such an App could even contain conversion rules for various Roleplaying and Miniature games as a fun bonus, if they got the right company to purchase the publishing rights.

[Bookslayer10]

Originally posted by FDR'sThinkTank:

Originally posted by SCamp:

This is both a waste of time and money.

You might as well be describing all video games with that attitude.

This could be a revenue stream for Ghost Ship Games and they don't even have to personally devise it. Such an App could even contain conversion rules for various Roleplaying and Miniature games as a fun bonus, if they got the right company to purchase the publishing rights.

GSG employs game developers, not wiki writers, and I doubt they could ever compete financially with a free wiki being maintained by fans.