Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

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Fandom is a wiki hosting service, co-founded by the wiki king himself Jimmy Wales, and it is big business. Unlike Wales' other ventures Fandom is a for-profit company and its homepage is one of the most popular websites in the world. The company was acquired in 2018 by private equity firm TPG Inc., following which it went on something of an acquisition spree itself and bought, among other things, Curse LLC's wiki service Gamepedia: host of countless official wikis including The Witcher, Minecraft, Dota 2, COD and Wowpedia.

Gamepedia's content was gradually migrated to Fandom's service before, in mid-2021, the site was rebranded as Fandom. But ever since the acquisition contributors and editors have been uneasy about Fandom's big money owners applying the nipple clamps and, as the site design has changed and there's been an increase in ads and popups, those feelings have finally boiled-over in one of the biggest wikis of all: Minecraft.

The Minecraft wiki editors are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it any more. What began as unease and Discord chat is now a vote on a full-scale migration of the Minecraft wiki away from Fandom, with the existing Fandom wiki being left as-is but not maintained while a fork of the Minecraft wiki goes to another host and lives happily ever after.

Minecraft wiki editor SonicWave has now created the discussion page where this is all going down and, if you're unfamiliar with wiki politics, this is now basically an emergency board meeting, and one where the numbers in support of a move are overwhelming. SonicWave summarises some of the editors' reasons thus:

There is also deep disquiet among wiki editors over a recent controversy with the McDonalds wiki, in which Fandom replaced the