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Welcome to Fandom! Contact us for help with moving a wiki to Fandom. If you have a wiki community looking for the benefits of being part of Fandom, we can help you through every stage of the move, which is often easy to do. If you want to give your wiki a stable home, then Fandom can provide that. If you're looking for ways to grow your user base or increase your traffic, Fandom can help your wiki to reach the next level. We have a lot of experience with moving wikis to Fandom, so there's no need to be concerned about such a move. Both large and small wikis have moved to Fandom. Larger examples include Wowpedia and Lostpedia. Fandom offers free wiki hosting to all communities to create content about whatever topic they are passionate about. The FAQ below is for users of a wiki that is not yet part of the Fandom Network. If you're not already a member of a wiki, you are welcome to explore Fandom existing wikis or create a new wiki. We can also help you to convert a non-wiki site to a wiki, so contact us if you'd like to turn your Google site, webs, or another site into a Fandom wiki. |
FAQ[]
What's better about Fandom?[]
At Fandom, you are part of a large wiki community and have the support of staff and helpers whenever you need it.
Fandom is free! Free in terms of money, and also in terms of freedom. All content on Fandom wikis is released under a free license. The company does not claim any copyright over the content. It will always belong to the community who are free to use it, edit it, download it, redistribute it, or whatever they like.
Fandom runs on MediaWiki and has a lot of extra features and skin designs developed especially for our wikis.
Fandom is run on stable servers with offsite backups in multiple locations so you never to worry about losing all the content you've worked so hard on.
There are no limits to the size your wiki can be at Fandom. WebsiteWiki moved to Fandom with more than 1 million articles. We hope your wiki will also grow to that size!
Fandom can promote your wiki across other wikis to drive more readers and potential contributors to your site.
What new features does Fandom have?[]
A few examples:
- VisualEditor - which makes it really easy for new wiki users as they don't need to know wiki-markup to start contributing
- Wiki Blogs - gives user personal space to blog on the wiki
- Analytics - detailed information about edits and views on your wiki
- Admin Dashboard - a dashboard where you can access tools to change your wiki
- No spam! Fandom has about 20 different ways of fighting spam, so you can focus on the content and not on reverting the spammers
- Upload multiple images at once
- Easily embed videos in articles
- Discussions - a social space where community members can talk about the wiki's topic as well as the wiki itself
- Image gallery shows all the newest images uploaded here
- String functions and parser functions for making complex and powerful templates
How can I move my wiki to Fandom?[]
If you and your community are ready to move to Fandom, contact us.
It doesn't matter whether or not you have direct access to the database, we can still move your wiki. We can integrate any extensions you are using and make sure the wiki continues to work in the same way it does now.
If my wiki moves to Fandom, will all my content still be there?[]
Yes, all of the text and images from your wiki will be transferred, including user pages and templates. If we import your user database, or if you make an account under the same name, your old edits can be attributed to you and you'll be able to check how many edits you've made using user contributions.
Can I change the design?[]
The Fandom skin can be customised with the Theme Designer.
Who will control the wiki?[]
Fandom claims no ownership over your wiki. Each Fandom site is managed by the communities that create them. While we're here to help with any problems you have, staff do not interfere with the content or policies of your wiki.
Is it hard to move?[]
No. We have a lot of experience in helping people move their wiki and we can handle the technical side of this for you. Just get in touch with us and we'll talk you through the next step.
Will there be advertising on the wiki?[]
For logged in users, the ads are usually limited to the wiki's homepage. The removal of most ads by registering and logging in encourages more people to become part of your community.
Will the URL of my wiki change?[]
Most Fandom sites can be found on a subdomain of fandom.com. If you own a domain, the quickest and easiest solution is to redirect that to the new URL at Fandom. Using Fandom's domain is an advantage for two main reasons:
- Users are automatically logged in to all wikis on fandom.com which makes it easier to edit across different wikis and more likely you will get casual editors dropping in from other wikis, and
- It can help to improve your Google page rank as sites on fandom.com are generally ranked quite high.
Can I leave Fandom later if I change my mind?[]
We'd be sad to see you go, but all content on Fandom is released under a free license, which makes it possible for any person to leave Fandom and take a copy of the content and legally set up a new site with it under the same license. We make database backups publicly available so you can be sure you will always have a copy of the content if you need it. This does not mean that the wiki on Fandom will necessarily be removed.
What now[]
Contact us with details of your wiki and we will help you get started in your new home at Fandom!