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Please revert if this is overstepping. Made updates, mainly the name and to present a more neutral viewpoint (I do not like fandom personally, but presenting multiple points of view is important.). Significant change to Moral Guardians. Most signficant change of content was a rewrite of Author Existence Failure, for better or worse, it has clearly survived since 2008. Removed the example of a wiki being gay because most of the users are girls, that does not match the listed trope.
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Wikia is a wiki hosting service founded in late 2004 by [[Wikipedia|Jimmy Wales]] and Angela Beesley. It is notable for hosting many fanwikis, such as [[World of Warcraft|WoWWiki]] and [[Star Wars|Wookieepedia]]. However, many wikis have left the site lately due to discontent over policies such as advertising and the new "Oasis" skin, implemented against the majority of the community's will.▼
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▲[http://fandom.wikia.com/explore '''Wikia'''], later known as '''Fandom''', is a wiki hosting service founded in late 2004 by [[Wikipedia|Jimmy Wales]] and Angela Beesley as '''Wikicities'''. It is notable for hosting many fanwikis, such as [[World of Warcraft|WoWWiki]] and [[Star Wars|Wookieepedia]]. However, [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis many wikis have left the site
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{{tropelist|'''''Disclaimer/Apology''': Many of these tropes are written from an anti-Wikia perspective. Please remember that [[ATT:1WAY|this wiki tries to keep multiple points of view]], and other perspectives are both welcome and requested.}}
* [[Ad Nauseam]]: A long string of forced reskins, which crowd out content to make room for more paid display advertising and more advertising for other Fandom projects. Unwanted [[Internet Ads]] for [[Real Money Trade]] (such as "buy gold", if placed against ''[[Guild Wars]]'' or ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' content as an invitation to cheat at these games) has been an issue in the past.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: These folks <u>used</u> to be fine with the [[Furry Fandom]] and others, back when they were still small and needed the traffic.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Can happen to smaller wikis with only a few contributors. Of course, this is true on any small site.
** Was a more widespread idea for the site back in 2008, according to [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/31/wikipedia this piece] in ''[[The Guardian]]''.
* [[Awesome Personnel Carrier]]{{context}} <ref> MOD: Whoever added this ''really'' needs to explain it. I can't figure out how a list of motor vehicles apples to a website. </ref>
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: According to ''Terms of Service; Didn't Read'', Fandom [https://tosdr.org/en/service/2256 may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users."]
* [[Broken Base]]: There's a long list of [https://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis communities which have voluntarily left]. In most cases, Fandom leaves the old project open as a direct competitor, permanently fracturing the community.
* [[Content Warnings]]: Especially the spoiler warnings.
* [[
** Fandom's sneaky fine print. One of the many disclaimers on [[Star Trek|Memory Alpha]]'s main page says "Community content is available under CC-BY-NC unless otherwise noted." but the clickable link points not to the original "CC NonCommercial-Attribution" licence but to a fandom.com page in which Fandom contracts themselves out of the "non-commercial" terms of the Creative Commons licence.
** The backroom deals in which Fandom secretly induces one individual who controls a domain name to sell it out from under an existing independent community. In the usual pattern, this individual (usually one of the founders) secretly agrees to delete data, agrees not to speak out publicly and agrees not to relaunch a competing wiki.
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Yes.▼
* [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Admins.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Fandom retaliates in various subtle ways against communities who try to leave, but they're [[We Suck Less|utter angels]] compared to [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html Internet Brands, who sued their own users] for trying to leave ''Wikitravel'' for ''Wikivoyage'' in 2012.
* [[Everyone Is Gay]]: May come up in certain communities. {{context}}
* [[Fair Use]]: Stretched pretty much to its limits or beyond. Most of the wikis are commentary on well-known copyrighted entertainment franchises, which use large numbers of images from the original work.
▲* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Yes.{{context}}
* [[Hot Linked]]: Particularly with deleted images
* [[Inn of No Return]]: A group of wikis, including WoWpedia, left Wikia for a competitor (Gamepedia, which ended up part of Curse Media) – largely due to [[Internet Ads|intrusive advertising]]. Wikia then bought Curse Media, so ultimately "they check in, but they don't check out".
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: [[Tradesnark™|Wikis hosted on Wikia]] are not wikis, they are wiki''a''s.
* [[Law of Wiki Expansion]]{{context}}
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: The boring reality of producing content [[Think of the Advertisers!|acceptable for advertisers]] to increase returns in a for profit business. As a result there is [[Censorship Bureau|staff censorship]] of content within individual projects, plus a long list of wikis [https://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Closed_wikis shut down] outright as a result. Aggravated by Fandom's use of SEO and duplicate content penalties [[Inn of No Return|to prevent the affected communities from leaving]] and their blocking users for pointing out that the community has moved elsewhere.
* [[Post Count]]: The editcount.
* [[Reading Your Rights]]: Admins and Bureaucrats.
* [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement]]{{context}}
* [[Screwed by the Network]]:
** Fandom can and has deleted whole wikis out of the blue. Among the communities thrown under the bus, some of whom were with Fandom almost from the beginning: Spanking Art (2008), Anime Bath Scene (2018), [[Fetish Fuel]] Wiki (2019) and roughly twenty-two languages of [[Uncyclopedia]] (2019).
* [[Stillborn Franchise]]: Wikia Search.
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* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]: Has been known to cause attempts to invoke this trope.{{context}}
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: Helps promote this. Fandom is one of the biggest wiki farms on the Internet. Given its large size and promotion of other Fandom wikis from a hosted Wiki, it does offer a number of genuinely handy tools for newcomers, even if it can be [[Power At a Price]].
* [[Vitalizing Edit]]{{context}}
* [[Walkthrough Mode]]: Especially in gaming wikis.
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* [[Wiki Magic]]{{context}}
* [[Wiki Curator]]{{context}}
* [[Wiki Vandal]]{{context}}
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