Talk:Forking Policy

UK-inw
Can you please put the interview on the Ukrainian page? Thanks in advance.  DDPAT talk 17:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

This policy is unfair
Please remove the part about how "Departing admins and other rightholders must make a clean break from the wiki" and stop revoking their rights. You justify this on the grounds that they have a conflict of interest, but it seems more like a manipulative tactic to stop forking. Now, sometimes they vandalise the Fandom Wiki, but not necessarily. This part is actually bad for Fandom wikis that have been forked, as it leaves them with less admins. I think what you should do instead is treat forked wikis the same as any other wiki, revoking/blocking admins who vandalise them and letting people adopt wikis if they have no admin activity for 60 days as a result of the fork. --Noisy miner (talk) 08:54, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Forking within Fandom
Is it ok to leave links to a fork if the fork itself is on Fandom? Like the UnSonic wiki forked from the UnAnything wiki because the community didn't like all the Sonic.EXE content, but the UnAnything Wiki has links to UnSonic on the main page and even in pages that exist on both wikis. Scampton &#91;The Great&#93; 20:51, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

So, in other words-
-we have to leave a perfect copy, and give you all our work, so you don't lose your precious, precious ad revenue and retain your stranglehold on wikis?

Is this because of Hollow Knight?

VestaServal (talk) 21:48, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * hi vesta Scampton &#91;The Great&#93; 22:07, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Sitenotice etc.
The new policy update mentions this:


 * Sitenotices and Anonnotices referencing the discussion, the fork, or the new URL are not permitted.

A decision like this is unfathomably detrimental to the health of the communities you are supposed to be supporting. Staff use these MediaWiki pages in order to relay important details to our users no matter where they are on the wiki - which includes fork announcements, since it's only fair to those users to let them know of the decision (where they can then decide to move to the new community or stick with the old one). Having to contact FANDOM SUPPORT in order to request the ONE SPECIFIC TEMPLATE you are mandated to use if you choose to fork which can only be posted in ONE PLACE with no links permitted anywhere else is unbelievably shortsighted. On many wikis the "main page" just redirects to the discussion forums anyway so there's next to no chance of an average user even finding said announcement unless they already know about it.

I've been on Wikia for a long while - I remember when we all switched skins to Oasis - but this is possibly the scummiest thing I've seen from the company in well over a decade. 184.102.102.180 23:31, 8 November 2023 (UTC)