User blog:HopelessNightOwl/Fandom to Abolish Wikis by 2021

I have news that is bound to frustrate and confuse many. If you haven't already heard, Fandom is planning to phase out wikis within the next couple years and replace them with "communities."

The information can be found in this Community Central blog post, but I'll summarize the key points here. To start with, Fandom will be replacing what is left of the MediaWiki software framework with its own proprietary engine. This means namespaces, page lists, etc. will be drastically overhauled as the last remnants of MediaWiki are swept away in 2021. Fandom says this is to improve security and facilitate the overhaul of Wikis to Communities.

Under the overhaul, all community and content pages will be combined into one system, and the new emphasis will be on community discussion over articles. All existing wiki articles will be archived. This site will be renamed the Creepypasta Community.

You will still be able to post stories, but they will have to be within the new Discussions framework, i.e. an article would be the same as a forum post and listed the same. This will definitely cause issues but hopefully we'll be able to work it out.

This will likely also mean the end of our distinctive front page, PotM, and author categories as features are streamlined and simplified.