Help talk:Fandom domain migration

Seriously?
This is really a bad decision. Do you even try to set up a poll for this? It makes no sense! --Triarch (talk) 15:34, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * I Agree. ~ Cirno The Ice Fairy (My talk!) 19:03, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Yep
Another example of Wikia's obvious greed and expressing lack of caring to their customers. Wonderful. --JohnnyD-the-VGNerd 13:59, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I refused to call them Fandom but Rather, Wikia... I wish Wikia haven't turned into a buzzfeed rip off or whatever it was. ~ Cirno The Ice Fairy (My talk!) 14:07, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * Great, now there will be complex procedures just to create a new wiki. Just like YouTube, Wikia is falling too. ~Nox

I want Wikia to stay forever.
I want Wikia to stay the way it would be forever.

Why are you moving my favorite wikis to so-called Fandom domain?
Yeah... the reason why most people were escaped to Curse media  and look at where they are, Fandom and curse media are actually joining force, but come on... Touhou wiki were moved to a new host! and Sonic wiki and club penguin wiki are migrated to .Fandom domain?! What the heck? ~ Cirno The Ice Fairy (My talk!) 14:21, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Why?!
Why are they going to moved my wiki homepage's domain to fandom.? Just Why?! --Lulu62 (talk) 14:57, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Don't forget
And of Feb 2019 FANDOM will then become a horror game. --Nintendon&#39;t (talk) 15:43, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Cancel
Cancel all fandoms. Wikia is FOREVER better than fandom and it ALWAYS WILL be.

I beg you.
Please leave Wikia the way it is and let it stay that way.

Yeah! Your decision is so bad!
Yep. This is just lazy in your opinion. should everyone just fork their old wikis to unaffilated wikis like Miraheze. ~ Cirno The Ice Fairy (My talk!) 19:03, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Horrrendous move
This an incredibly poor decision, please reconsider --The Creature Slayer (talk) 19:51, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

It must stay.
You can't let Wikia change to Fandom. It must stay that way.

I don't mind.
This is simply pointless. I don't really mind, i just think it's a pointless update. United, we stand. Divided, we stand. We just stand all the time. --Kelzod 20:31, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Everyone, just calm down
Speaking as the co-founder of a wiki that's been here for over 13 years, I can assure you that our communities have survived a previous domain change (see attached screenshot: WikiCities, February 2005), and they will probably survive this one. If everyone had read the information instead of having a knee-jerk reaction, you'd see that they seem to have thought this through. Don't worry about it, and just keep making your wikis great places for people to collaborate together. —Scott (message me) 20:45, January 18, 2019 (UTC)

Please.
Please let Wikia stay as it is.

Evolution is the guiding key
After reading all of this i was concern at first but then when it's fime for a domain to evolve from a wiki or wikia to fandom i think this'll be a great guiding key to all user's to evolve there domain to a fandom community not a wiki and keep it domained it's fine time to evolve from a wiki to a fandom who user's will love to talk and so on. So you know as such as i said evolution is the guiding key to all fandoms hopefully you'll evolve them too, Anyone agree?...-Trainer Micah (talk) 21:15, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * In other words, we want to keep supporting Wikia's endless greed. In that case, no thank you. --JohnnyD-the-VGNerd 23:58, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * No greed here it's to users or admin oor bureaucrat or discussion mod chat mod etc why do we all call a wikia or wiki a fandom?
 * Answer is to make a wiki or wikia grow as a fandom to become popular the more popular the fandom community becomes the more branches of other fandom's it grows into so no it's to users who obay rules an so on so think about it ask yourself why okay?
 * Do you want too see your community grow popular? If so think about it if so it's what we call a fandom plus it's only in url no other places alright. --Trainer Micah (talk) 01:04, January 19, 2019 (UTC)

This place is becoming less of a place for wikis...
Turning Wikia into "Fandom" just sounds so much worse, and I bet this will affect if our wikis are displayed on Google results since most people who want to look at stuff on a wiki will type "&lt;something> wiki". This also just makes our wikis sound less like such and more like websites for fanon.

These kinds of changes are what led to one of the former administrators of Destiny Wikia resigning their position because you just do whatever you desire, disregarding any of your communities' opinions. —Nazo, Lord of the Darkness 22:29, January 18, 2019 (UTC)
 * People that Google for "&lt;something> wiki" will still find the wikis they need, wikis aren't being renamed to "fandoms"... I don't know where are you getting the idea that Google would rank  domains higher when searching for "wiki". In fact, this very article you're commenting on is explaining why would it rank them lower than   domains. --  Cube - shaped   garbage can  22:32, January 18, 2019 (UTC)


 * The trend of people searching for the word “wiki” has dropped tremendously for several years now. That hasn’t had an impact on people coming to the site, though. It just means that people aren’t including the word wiki in their searches anymore, and the strong SEO that Fandom communities have keeps putting their results at the top. For example you don’t have to search for “Luke Skywalker wiki” to get Luke Skywalker’s Wookieepedia entry in the #2 spot where it is now. You can just search “Luke Skywalker.”


 * Keywords like that have fallen out of style with Google because they group concepts together and serves not just the user’s query but what they believe is the user’s intent. If I search for pizza at 6pm odds are Google is going to show me results for local pizza places and not an article defining what a pizza is because they’re 99% sure I want to order a pizza. It’s the same where if I search for “black panther” after searching for “black jaguar” Google’s probably going to show me pictures of an animal and not the Marvel movie.


 * All of which is to say - it’s not going to affect people searching “ wiki” and their ability to find your community. In fact, as the chart on the help page shows, the domains that are already migrated to fandom.com are, on average, performing better than they did when they were on wikia.com. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 00:06, January 19, 2019 (UTC)

Instead, implement official polls before changing Wikia to Fandom. Many SEO and search engines still prioritize Wikia sites especially that of Candy Crush wiki, my home wiki as of now. Or, an alternative method is to let "Fandom" be simply an alternative name for the main name "Wikia." a mulligan. (talk) 05:49, January 19, 2019 (UTC)
 * Still, for years and years the Wikias aka Wikipedias for specialized subjects such as that of a game or a franchise has been known as Wikia, and many indeed includes "fandom" content. Rebranding Wikia to Fandom however will not be recommended - and most "Fandom" sites are really something akin to guides. Interestingly enough, I like the name "Wikia by Fandom" but oppose the name "Fandom"

My thought on this decision...
I don't really care to be honest... Gummy Cow! 00:08, January 19, 2019 (UTC)

Which is fine no users will see it coming in a few weeks it's only happening in "url link" of https no where else users will still have there wikia or wiki to make them grow it's only in url above in the big box of search so yes you'll still have your wikia or wiki as users continue to grow them and see how popular it'll become as a FANDOM alright so you know some will not care some will so continue on editoring as etc and see how popular your community grows alright..-Trainer Micah (talk) 01:14, January 19, 2019 (UTC)

Differences
How's it going to be different than now? Why is this happening? Whose idea was it anyway? Retro Reed (talk) 01:39, January 19, 2019 (UTC)
 * There's not going to be a difference other than the URL. We rebranded from Wikia to Fandom over 2 years ago, which is why the domain change is happening. It just took awhile to figure out how to safely migrate domains from wikia.com to fandom.com without harming traffic, which is why we didn't do this migration over 2 years ago. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 01:58, January 19, 2019 (UTC)