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1 | Considrations | Fandom (For reference) | wiki.gg | Bulba | ABXY | Runescape Wiki | Fully independent (for refernece) | |
2 | Monetization | Ads; including for other their websites in article text, which looks like part of the text and may even look like something wiki editors added on purpose. Extensive tracking and data collection in addition to ads. | Ads; unlike Fandom, not known to add in-content ads, also ads are mostly gaming-related | Ads; Host runs ads in exchange for wiki getting all hosting and technical expenses fully covered. Just as we've negotiated with Bulbapedia itself, users with registered accounts who are logged in would be ad free. Ads would be highly context specific, mostly gaming-related, and you should be able to explicitly veto certain types of ads (e.g. no ads pretending to be article text). | Ads; Should be comparable to ads on strategywiki.org. | Currently, the majority of RSW’s funding comes from an ad partnership with Playwire. All ads appear only below the fold (read, once the page has been scrolled down) either below the article or on the side below the sidebar info. There are no ads for logged-in users and no ads for anyone in the EU. Because there are no ads served in the EU, there is currently no cookie notice. | Unknown, but likely ads; Could potentially require more ads than currently with Fandom, since Fandom is going to have better connections with ad networks, and thus be able to attract better offers from the ad networks as a result. | |
3 | Server stability | Good | Good to Neutral - Assuming they're using a cloud setup as any decent host should, expect stability comparable to Fandom | Good - Most likely using AWS - Expect stability comparable to Fandom or Bulbapedia | Good. Planned outages for upgrades/maintence a few times a year. Generally stable otherwise | Good - very stable and reliable | Neutral to potentially strongly negative - Depends on what kind of setup you can afford, particularly given that you'll need a few months to ramp up before ad revenue would come in. | |
4 | CDN around the globe | Yes | Yes | Can be made available if required | Images have a global CDN. Pages are hosted from US. | Uses GCP for hosting, Cloudflare as the global CDN. | Unlikely initially - it's an additional expense you'll struggle to afford | |
5 | Search Ranking impact (Short term) | Unchanged | Strongly negative | Strongly negative | Strongly negative | Strongly negative | Strongly negative | |
6 | Search Ranking impact (Medium & Long term) | Unchanged | Likely Neutral, given minor effort to get the word out via Minecraft content creators on Twitch & YouTube You're also going to be getting coverage in major gaming news websites, and a steady stream of inbound links from Minecraft articles on those sites moving forward, not to mention links from other highly ranked independent wikis | Likely Neutral, given minor effort to get the word out via Minecraft content creators on Twitch & YouTube You're also going to be getting coverage in major gaming news websites, and a steady stream of inbound links from Minecraft articles on those sites moving forward, not to mention links from other highly ranked independent wikis | Likely Neutral, given minor effort to get the word out via Minecraft content creators on Twitch & YouTube. Links from other highly ranked independent wikis. Will take work to rewrite articles to avoid google deranking. | Likely Neutral, given minor effort to get the word out via Minecraft content creators on Twitch & YouTube. Links from other highly ranked independent wikis. Will take work to rewrite articles to avoid google deranking. However, the RS wiki has had major sucsess and the team have worked with other wikis with simillar sucsess. | Likely Neutral, given minor effort to get the word out via Minecraft content creators on Twitch & YouTube You're also going to be getting coverage in major gaming news websites, and a steady stream of inbound links from Minecraft articles on those sites moving forward, not to mention links from other highly ranked independent wikis | |
7 | Editorial control | Maybe; Fandom can and has stepped in on certain occasions with other wikis, though these events are to be fair relatively rare. Though you may consider ads in article text, that look like they were written by wiki editors on purpose, as infringing your editorial control. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, though probably subject to host's content policies (since all hosts do impose a terms of service, though most are quite reasonable and shouldn't impact you) | |
8 | Policy control (legal) | Never | Never | Full control, within the bounds of the law and your host's agreements with advertisers | Full control, within the bounds of the law and agreements with advertisers | Full control, within the bounds of the law and agreements with advertisers | Full control, within the bounds of the law and your agreements with advertisers | |
9 | Legal responsibility | Fandom | Wiki.gg | Your host / Archaic / Wiki staff, depending on what the legal issue pertains to. (e.g. If it's from your enforcement of your policies, it's potentially on you. If it's pertaining to ads, it's on your host) | ABXY | Whoever owns the Minecraft Wiki domain (presumably your editor-in-chief) - They'd also be the one taking any revenue from the ads, so you'll need to sort out how that'd work too. | ||
10 | Skin control | Only FandomDesktop and FandomMobile, with customizations as allowed by Fandom's technical limitations and policy restrictions (which aren't negligible, but allow for most common use cases) | Partial | Yes (you'd have to negotiate regarding ad placement, but you wouldn't have to worry about anything like ads as part of article text) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
11 | Mobile support | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
12 | Custom domain | No | No | Always | Yes | Yes | Always | |
13 | Allows language wikis | Yes | Yes | Yes, though these other wikis would themselves have to accept carrying ads, or else be hosted elsewhere, though you can still set them up as an interwiki even if they're on wiki.gg or Miraheze. | Yes | Yes | Entirely dependent on funding, and if you're hosting them or if they're having to do it themselves. Though you can still set them up as an interwiki even if they're on wiki.gg or Miraheze, even if you're fully independent. | |
14 | International support | Partial | No | Partial | Partial | Depends what hosting company you go with | ||
15 | Anonymous editing | Disabled by Fandom, who claimed it was necessary for COPPA compliance | Yes | Maybe, but probably not - subject to finding ways to not violate COPPA, GDPR, etc | Up to wiki policy | Yes | Maybe - If you run ads, you're going to have to find a way to do this without violating COPPA, GDPR, etc. If you find a way to run without ads, it's much easier, but would still require you to ensure you only collect a bare minimum of info from users. | |
16 | Extension control | Partial | Partial | Yes - via sysadmin, just have to ask. It'd only really be a no if there was a specific issue with an extension (like something that could cause server issues, security issues etc). | Yes via sysadmin, but with limitations. Extensions need to be secure, maintained, and performant. | Yes via sysadmin, but with limitations. Extensions need to be secure, maintained, and performant. | Yes, but within the limitations of the system resources available to you. | |
17 | Access analytics | Partial | Partial | Should be Yes - I can't see any reason why access couldn't be granted, though it might have to be to a few B'crats rather than every staff member. | Limited to a few wiki leads | Yes | Yes | |
18 | Change config | Rarely | Rarely | Yes - via sysadmin, just have to ask. It'd only really be a no if there was a specific issue with an particular config (like something that could cause server issues, security issues etc). | Yes - via sysadmin, as long as it doesn't interfere with general configuration. | Yes - via sysadmin, as long as it doesn't interfere with general configuration. | Yes, but within the limitations of the system resources available to you. | |
19 | View file pages | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | yes | Yes | |
20 | Miser Mode | Yes | No | Not initially, long term would depend on exactly how much traffic the wiki really pulls | No | Not enabled | Probably, at least initially - until your cashflow is high enough, it'll take you a while until you have sufficient server resources | |
21 | Extensions of interest | Assume yes for all extensions (an outright no would be rare, and more an issue of server stability and security than unwillingness) | Assume yes for all extensions (an outright no would be rare, and more an issue of server stability and security than unwillingness) | |||||
22 | DPL3 | Yes | Yes | See below | Yes | |||
23 | DynamicPageList3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
24 | EmbedVideo | Yes | Yes (fork) | Yes | ||||
25 | Notifications | Yes | No | Echo - Yes | If needed | |||
26 | OAuth | No | Yes | Maybe depending on usecase | Yes | |||
27 | PortableInfobox | Yes; Fandom's proprietary version thereof, which is different from the open-source version | Yes | Yes | If needed | |||
28 | TabberNeue | Yes, but old version is used | Yes | Yes | If needed | |||
29 | TemplateStyles | No | Yes | Yes | If needed | |||
30 | VisualEditor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
31 | Widgets | Partial | Unknown | No | Yes | |||
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