Forum:Language wikis on Fandom

There are Fandom-native wikis for Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Indonesian, Catalan, Persian and Vietnamese languages, as well as maybe for a few others. These did not originate as translation projects of our Minecraft Wiki and thus did not have any ties with us, even during our few years of tenure at Fandom. Though a few happen to reuse our Fandom-era design, possibly violating the license as they use CC BY-SA, whereas we always had CC BY-NC-SA, a stricter license (though there was a commercial usage waiver for Fandom).

We happen to have translation projects for all languages of these mentioned wikis except Norwegian (the wiki for which was apparently abandoned in like 2010 — one of the oldest Minecraft wikis in existence?) and Danish. Rather curiously, Fandom’s Catalan wiki is linked from our own translation project’s page. But all those Fandom projects are barely active (if at all) and don’t have more than a hundred articles, so it’s relatively easy for our projects (whether existing or future) to catch up. There is also a Hebrew Fandom wiki but it only consists of a placeholder main page in English, so it doesn’t really count.

Conversely, the Finnish wiki has almost 750 articles (the Thai wiki, for comparison, is at just over 900) and is apparently still being filled with content, though the activity isn’t great there either. This puts quite some doubt on how well our own Suomi project would fare. Indeed, 750 articles is quite a lot to contend with.

Should we try encouraging the forking of Fandom’s Finnish wiki and maybe merging it with our existing Finnish-language material? That might be problematic because, as a Fandom-native project, it might be relying on some Fandom-specific stuff such as the discussions/forum system (of which the Finnish wiki appears to have some use). Also, the licenses differ, as already mentioned above. Of course, outdated info is an issue (their main page lists 1.20.6 as the latest Java Edition version), but it might be a better start than having no info at all.

There might also be other Fandom-native wikis that don’t “compete” with our translation projects; what if at least one of them is about as big as the Finnish one?

Finally, we still have a few of our own language sections “abandoned” on Fandom due to low or none activity, specifically Hungarian, Greek, Czech, and Turkish. While the Greek wiki only has little over 30 articles, and the Turkish wiki is barely at over one hundred, the Czech wiki is at over ~600 articles, which is not far behind the Fandom-native Finnish wiki. And not only does the Hungarian wiki have ~800 articles, but it dates back to well before Gamepedia, so I think bringing back the Hungarian wiki should be something like a matter of honor for MCW. — BabylonAS 11:44, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Soo... What exactly are you suggesting...? (Also note: I am planning to learn Greek to translate the Wiki, I'm just not far rn) -~- Nerdyguy2000   Talk   Edits  14:13, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

It’s more of a question, not a suggestion. But I personally think someone should try reaching out to whoever is editing Fandom’s Finnish wiki and find out their opinion on forking and possible union with our wikis. We could also probably launch a campaign on “saving” the Hungarian, Czech, and maybe Turkish projects: bring attention to those projects being inactive, let someone adopt them, then proceed with the fork. However, this attempt at influencing the non-forked projects might be seen negatively, at least by Fandom. — BabylonAS 15:15, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

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As for the Greek wiki, its content was apparently copied back onto the English wiki's translation project (which is hidden), but the wiki itself wasn't closed. Someone should try requesting closing the Greek wiki on Fandom; at 32 articles it's better to start all over. BabylonAS 06:47, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

We tried contacting most of these wikis during the fork, without success. You can find here the page we used to list the wikis we knew of. If any editors from the wiki are willing to fork, they should contact us directly via the meta:Forum. Furthermore, we have already discussed this with WeirdGloop in the past and they are not planning to move any more wikis. The wikis being outdated also makes it technically more difficult to port the content than just creating a project from scratch. –MetalManeMc, 👁 Image
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