User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment--20170510200248/@comment--20170510210242

Ursuul, Fandom does not discuss the specific details of our blocks with third parties. While I understand it is being sought for the sake of transparency, we do want to respect the privacy of the users involved. A simple review of the community's RecentChanges log will likely answer most of your questions.

Cqm, I will politely direct you to the first part of my statement which says "The old style of infoboxes represents outdated coding, and we no longer code in a way that make them a viable option." Like many web companies' platform changes or say HTML itself, we use deprecation time to allow users to switch over and use the newer code moving forward. In this case, ES.pokemon was by far the largest community on Fandom that did not have a technical blocker to migrating the code and retiring the old style. As stated, the leaders of that community were not willing to even engage in a discussion on the topic - meaning ultimately they were willing to let personal reservations about the overall platform continue to lead to a suboptimal and, in the future, broken experience in viewing pages. To address our general strategy, we've taken the approach of going top-down on migration because that provides the most immediate increase of portable mobile pageviews and because many smaller communities copy and tweak code from bigger wikis.