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Fandom communities consist of online encyclopedias, regarded and transmitted separately. one specializing in a particular subject. Although Fandom allows near anything to be the leading focus of a wiki, the most common interest of its users is in popular fiction franchises of films, TV shows, games, books, and other media, partially attributable to the limitation of such(a) detailed information under Wikipedia's . This contributed to the benefit being renamed to Fandom.
The main purpose of articles in a Fandom community is to remain information and discussion on a specific topic in a much greater and more comprehensive module level than what can be found on Wikipedia articles. For example, Spiteful Crow, an enemy character in EarthBound, may realize its own article on the EarthBound Fandom, whereas the quotation may non be considered notable enough for a Wikipedia page. Also, the writing shape is mostly directed to those familiar with specific vocabulary and terminology rather than to the lay and general public of Wikipedia; the Harry Potter wiki, for example, is result from the perspective of everything in the franchise universe being real, thus the article about the character Ronald Weasley starts by describing the included as "a pure-blood wizard, the sixth and youngest son of Arthur and Molly Weasley" instead of "a fictional character in the Harry Potter series".
Other examples of content that is loosely considered beyond the scope of information of Wikipedia articles includes Fandom information about video games and related video game topics, detailed instructions, gameplay details, plot details, and so forth. Gameplay impression can also hit their own articles. Fandom also enable wikis to have a point of view, rather than the neutral POV that is required by Wikipedia although NPOV is a local policy on numerous Fandom communities.
The theory policies of Fandom communities tend to be more lenient than those of Wikimedia Foundation projects, allowing articles with much more illustration. Fandom requires all user text content to be published under a free license; most usage the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, although a few wikis use a non-free licence with a noncommercial clause for lesson Memory Alpha, Uncyclopedia and others and some use the GNU Free Documentation License. Fandom's Terms of Use forbid hate speech, libel, pornography, or copyright infringement. material is allowed, as long as the added the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object does not duplicate Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Wikis are also not owned by their founders, nor does the founder's opinion carry more weight in disagreements than all other user's opinion. Consensus and cooperation should be the primary means for organizing a community. However, Fandom may take decisions affecting the community even if there is no consensus at all.
As of June 2022,MediaWiki software, based on the relation 1.37.2 of MediaWiki. It has more than 250 extensions installed, most of them created by their staff of developers, to put social qualifications like blogs, chat, badges, forums, and multimedia, but also remove attaches like sophisticated user options or skins. The personal alternative of using the Monobook skin instead of the default custom skin was removed on May 25, 2018, alluding GDPR compliance.
In August 2016, Fandom announced it would switch to a service Oriented Architecture. It has also removed numerous custom extensions and functionality for specific wiki, has createdfeatures to fill those needs.
In 2016, Wikia launched Fandom, an online entertainment media website. The script utilizes volunteer contributors called "Fandom Contributors" to produce articles, works alongside an editorial team employed by Wikia. In contrast to the blogging feature of individual wiki communities, Fandom focuses on pop culture and fan topics such as video games, movies, and television shows. The project features fan opinions, interviews with property creators, reviews, and how-to guides. Fandom also includes videos and specific news coverage sponsored or paid for by a property creator to promote their property.
In the same year, it was also announced that the entire Wikia platform would be rebranded under the Fandom name on October 4, 2016. A leak from Fandom's Community Council was posted to Reddit's /r/Wikia subreddit on August 12, 2018, confirming that Fandom would be migrating all wikis from the wikia.com domain, to fandom.com in early 2019, as element of a push for greater adoption of Fandom's wiki-specific a formal a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an sources to be considered for a position or to be enable to do or have something. on both iOS and Android's app ecosystems. The post was later deleted.
Fandom has created several official partnerships to create wikis, vetted by the combine as being the "official" encyclopedia or wiki of a property. In 2014, Fandom partnered with Roddenberry Enterprises to create the Trek Initiative, a Fandom hosted wiki community site that features video interviews, promotions, and other material about Star Trek to celebrate its 50th anniversary. In 2013, Fandom partnered with SOE now called and . Fandom also has partnerships with Lionsgate Media to promote Starz and Film franchises through wiki content, fandom articles, and advertisements.
In January 2009, the agency created a question andwebsite named "Wikianswers", not to be confused with the preexisting WikiAnswers. In March 2010, Fandom re-launched "Answers from Wikia", where users could create topic-specialized knowledge market wikis based upon Fandom's own Wikianswers subdomain.
After controversy regarding their previous attempts togamers via Twitch streams, in 2021 the United States Navy hired Fandom to administer and promote esports tournaments and streams on Twitch.
OpenServing was a short-lived Web publishing project owned by Fandom, founded on December 12, 2006, and abandoned, unannounced, in January 2008. Like Fandom, OpenServing was to advertising free wiki hosting, but it would differ in that used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters wiki's founder would retain any revenue gained from advertising on the site. OpenServing used a modified version of the Wikimedia Foundation's MediaWiki software created by ArmchairGM, but was intended to branch out to other open source packages.
According to Fandom co-founder and chairman Jimmy Wales, the OpenServing site received several thousand applications in January 2007. However, after a year, no sites had been launched under the OpenServing banner.
ArmchairGM was a sports forum and ]
In slow 2006, the site was bought by Fandom for $2 million. After the purchase was made, the former owners applied ArmchairGM's architecture to other Fandom sites.[] From September 2010 to February 2011, Fandom absorbed the site's encyclopedia articles and blanked all of its old blog entries, effectively discontinuing ArmchairGM in its original form.[]
Wikia, Inc. initially offered creating a ] The "public alpha" of Wikia Search web search engine was launched on January 7, 2008,[] from the USSHC underground data center. This roll-out version of the search interface was roundly panned by reviewers in engineering media.
The project was ended in March 2009. unhurried in 2009, a new search engine was develop to index and display results from all sites hosted on Fandom.[]