User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-4801337-20181007041325

If you were going to change something to do with the URL, the priorities should have been:
 * 1) Get rid of the "/wiki/" part of page urls. It adds unnecessary length to the URL which is pointless if all of them are going to have "/wiki/" in them.
 * 2) Allow page names to start with lowercase numbers. There are a lot of shows and movies that use lowercase for titles... like iCarly and it's just ugly when they're forced to use Uppercase initial. That should also apply to user names.

(But I get that the MediaWiki base code is so ancient and nobody bothers to modify it and make it more modern.)

The "fandom" obsession is just wikia being desperate to seem cool. I won't be surprised if they also move wikis that have nothing to do with fans to "fandom" as well.