Linking to the fandom wiki like you do on this site probably helps fandom more than you're hurting it. Just help wiki maintainers move to better platforms.
NetHackWiki (somewhen around 2010 or 2012?) moved off fandom when it was still called wikia. It took several years to overtake the older wiki in search results even though the old one was completely abandoned and vandalized by humans and bots, and active engagement by users to change links to the new wiki location all over the internet.
Expect a marathon not a sprint.
Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.
It's just been revokedAnd before anyone says anything about poor little indie websites needing money to survive: fandom is not one. Fandom is an advertising business. They're in the business of maximizing revenue by showing you as many ads as possible, not just a few to support their server costs, and businesses like this should be treated with extreme prejudice.
Are you saying the app is using a different scraper? This I would get. But earlier comment[1] mentions ban revocation - this is what surprises me.
I skimmed the docs looking for an architecture overview, but couldn't see an answer to this. The low resource requirements cited for the docker container install suggest it's just doing page-loads and re-rendering them.
EDIT: So I've now set this up as via docker on my nomad cluster, and it's just proxying the pages and searches to and fro. It's a bit heavy - sitting at about 410MB while idle, but doesn't feel like there's any performance impact compared to hitting upstream directly.
By "this stuff" I mean BreezeWiki, Invidious, Nitter, whatever that one for Reddit was called.
We're essentially reliant on these serverside solutions to proxy requests because that's the easiest way to do cross-origin requests without making whatever browser deity you annoyed that morning suddenly angry at you. (Extensions can mark domains to be allowed to run on, but this is restricted by the manifest, allowing for really easy whack-a-mole by server authors, not to mention the fact that each update would need signing from Mozilla/Google.)
Irritatingly, the same mechanism that's used to stop fraudulent sites can also be used as an easy deterrent against deshittification interfaces.
The very first wiki I remember garnering a lot of backlash was the Touhou Wiki, quite a long time ago. It was an amusing case because they decided to leave relatively soon after Wikia forced the ad-ridden theme on everyone, but Wikia decided they were too big to leave, banned the admins and appointed new ones. The community revolted and set the wiki on fire, eventually requiring admins to step in and roll back the vandalism.
Since then, they've just gone further and further mask-off regarding how they blatantly abuse their SEO position, extract money from user-generated content, and manipulate teenagers attracted to the perceived prestige of running "the" definitive wiki about some subject they're interested in. It's very depressing. I'm glad that wiki farms make it easy for people to run community wikis, but I'd rather everyone learn how to set up Mediawiki on crappy cPanel shared hosting again than have Fandom be the future. I think the company most responsible to kill them is Google, because their broken-ass search engine is the primary reason why Fandom works. I know that this is a hard problem to solve, but in my mind it's easy: start punishing large-scale SEO abusers like Pinterest and Fandom. It's five fucking years too late to start now, but that timer isn't resetting. Once you cut off their advantage over independent websites, and force each wiki to at least stand out on its own, it will definitely deal a fairly big blow to the machine they've built.
I'm sure it's been pointed out by others in the comments, but rather than BreezeWiki, you might want to consider Indie Wiki Buddy, which will redirect you to independently-ran wikis instead. (Or you could use both. Whatever floats your boat.)
I built my own genre-based wiki from scratch for kpop at kpopping.com (not a mediawiki) and my niche has been completely destroyed by google. They've promoted sites that leak nudes of minors and put porn ads on their wordpresses masquerading as wikis to first positions. Fandom would be an improvement for my niche.
Alas we are fooked.
I needed the info on the wiki page I was using though, and got around the issue by disabling the app store through parental controls.
Apple allowing that app store opening nonsense single-handedly made my decision to go to Android.
I noticed the layout breaking on some pages, e.g.: https://breezewiki.com/Battleheartlegacy/wiki/Necromancer - the table extends beyond the horizontal edge of the page, at least on mobile.
Still a more user friendly place than fandom/wikia and I am now going to use BreezeWiki instead.
At least https://rpg.breezewiki.com/ru/wiki/ doesn't work.
We’re about to celebrate our tenth anniversary in a couple months. I hope many Fandom wikis can come join us by then.
> Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.
Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means to block people from deshitifying their webshites.
So I'd say their satisfied
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And then they won’t delete your wiki if the community asks for it. Fandom is hostile to forks.
I thought the linkedin scraping case set the precedent that anonymous scraping was legal?