User blog comment:Brian Linder/Introducing the Fandom Official Community Partnership Program/@comment-29522542-20190718004247

This is interesting...

Perhaps I have overlooked someone asking/answering this before me, but I'm curious as to how this will work with Gamepedia and Fandom communities having something of a "competition" in many sectors.

I.e.:

Suppose Wikis A and B are approximately equal, or at least perceived equal. One wiki is on Fandom and the other is on Gamepedia. Wiki A on Fandom (or Gamepedia) gets a partnership with the wiki's Content Source. This leads Wiki B on Gamepedia (or, for the inverse, on Fandom) to be stuck in a position of playing second fiddle (and a now "unofficial" fiddle at that).

Wiki B is consequently torn apart, with members variously being forced to decide whether to stay, to head to Wiki A, or to even concede to attempting to merge with Wiki A (leading to a disaster of a pileup of two previously separate communities).

Wiki A, meanwhile, might turn somewhat artificial-feeling, with its members feeling as though they now need to up their game and act 100% professional 24/7.

While this is a hypothetical situation, it's one that I am sure can easily occur now that Gamepedia and Fandom are under one roof, and that both sides can now "compete" for a Official tag.