Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44151359-20191016173402/@comment-9605025-20191016174356

TL;DR: people can be immature

"Often" is a rather subjective term. I personally have not been involved on too many wikis where this happens a lot. That being said, it depends on the relationship between the wikis. A fair amount of times, wikis split due to disagreements on things like format, naming conventions, choice of conjunctives, UK v. US english; stuff that might seem silly to a more casual observer but for some reason is a hot button issue for the parties involved. Unfortunately, when such a conflict happens, it is generally between users with similar interests (and maturity levels). As such, the conflict will typically spill over from the wiki in question to many other wikis about similar topics the users are involved with (as they attempt to gather support for "their side"). This has a chaining effect that can essentially split entire groups of wikis into opposing factions.