User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment-11387016-20170508142710/@comment-1824272-20170508143132


 * I thought and hoped that they'd take this approach with every community.

The problem here is that you're absolutely correct. User:FishTank, a main guy at Fandom Staff, went to WikiDex and offered all of the same support you got at your wiki, trying to address the community's problems and fine-tune the new Portable Infoboxes as much as possible to help the wiki convert. The part of this story you're not seeing is that Ciencia disregarded all outreaches of support and told FishTank and all other Fandom staff to shove off, and he's gotten other members of that wiki to do the same. You can take a minute to browse through the talk pages at WikiDex and see the writing on the wall plain as day.

WikiDex would have had the exact same outcome as your wiki did, if Ciencia bothered to accept Fandom's help. Instead, they attacked Fandom, and got punished for it. I don't see anything shocking here except Ciencia's behavior as an administrator.