It had an older one too, but I am not asking for the logos, I am asking if it is true that Wikia is Wikicities and vice versa. Also, when was Wikia created? I think it was 2004, but what is the exact date?
It had an older one too, but I am not asking for the logos, I am asking if it is true that Wikia is Wikicities and vice versa. Also, when was Wikia created? I think it was 2004, but what is the exact date?
TheKorraFanatic wrote:
To answer your last question, Fandom was founded on October 18, 2004.
Wrong. WikiCities was founded in 2004 and became Wikia around 2006. The Fandom brand as part of Wikia didn't even exist until 2016. I also believe they had to pay off someone to get the fandom.com domain from them which may have happened even after 2016.
Fandyllic wrote:
TheKorraFanatic wrote:
To answer your last question, Fandom was founded on October 18, 2004.
Wrong. WikiCities was founded in 2004 and became Wikia around 2006. The Fandom brand as part of Wikia didn't even exist until 2016. I also believe they had to pay off someone to get the fandom.com domain from them which may have happened even after 2016.
When I said "Fandom", I was talking about the site as a whole, even if it was called WikiCities when it was founded.
Yeah, that's pretty vague. Most of the existence of Wikia was not as Fandom.
The real changeover was when the domain names changed to fandom.com. Before that it was all just window dressing.
Iirc there's a window variable that is called wgCityId
which Wikia never bothered to update.
Yeah, just look at this quote!
We do not have any plans to change URLs at this time.
Well that certainly didn't take too long. Assuming they keep wikia.com as a redirect, it would still create tons of confusion as people who are accustomed to "Wikia.com" would find themselves at this strange Wikia-lookalike called "Fandom.com". Not cool. Not funny.
^ We now have wikis about controversial topics on wikia.org instead of fandom.com.
Wikia.org is not just for controversial topics. My understanding is that the really controversial topics are still being removed regardless of which domain they are on. The difference between wikia.org and fandom.com is that fandom.com is for media-related topics; things like books, tv shows, anime, mange, video games, card games, etc. Meanwhile, wikia.org is for other things like math, science, biology, history, arts, self-help, etc.