User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-178.166.52.144-20181028093234/@comment-73.223.156.227-20181028195607

https was only available on english wikis. but I agree, they could have done this on wikia.com but chose to move the site to fandom.com at the same time they're making changes to the non-english wiki urls.