Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40102297-20190718072946/@comment-9605025-20190718214755

FANDOM is a brand name used by Wikia. Wikia is one of a variety of companies that host wiki farms (i.e. collections of separate wikis). Wikia, like other wiki hosting services, used MediaWiki, the same core code used by more famous sites like Wikipedia. When it was first founded, it was actually called WikiCities. It eventually changed to Wikia and now it is FANDOM. The URLs of the wikis have changed accordingly from wiki.wikicities.com to wiki.wikia.com to wiki.fandom.com (or wiki.wikia.org for wikis that are not related to fandom culture). Recently, Wikia merged with/acquired Curse LLC. Among other things, Curse had Gamepedia, a farm of MediaWiki wikis dedicated to gaming (thus overlapping with Wikia's interests). So, as of now, Wikia controls the Gamepedia wiki farm as well as the one they have had from the start. Right now, there is no unified login for the two farms so one must create separate accounts. When creating an account for FANDOM (which covers fandom.com and wikia.org sites), you can either create an account directly or through either Facebook or Google Accounts. When creating an account for Gamepedia, you must do so through Twitch, a third-party site meant for game streaming.