#wiki stuff

[uesp]

The fact is the mass consolidation of wikis and fan sites into single sites was basically a trap to force those communities to deal with the eventual enshittification of the platform that absorbed them. Some of us had the foresight and hands to see this coming and avoid this, but others are now trying to escape and stand on their own at last. The UESP isn't alone, Indie Wiki Buddy has a pretty good list (and extension to help you find them).

Are there any other independent wikis/fan communities that you care about still out there? We'd love to hear about them.

[kuroshitsuji-wiki]

Kuroshitsuji Wiki: One Year on Wiki.gg!

It started with the ban of a word (fag!) and now...

...as of today (Feb. 24, 2026), it has been a year since the new wiki became public on wiki.gg!!!

The new Kuro Wiki: https://kuroshitsuji.wiki.gg/

I, for one, cannot believe it has been a year already! The months leading into 2025 and 2025 as a whole was such a busy time for me, both wiki-wise and life-wise. As a result of that, I am not as far in my wiki editing endeavours as I wished.

Still!

The new wiki is already larger and has more content and information than the old one on Fandom. :) This cannot just be seen from the statistics page alone but from comparing pages too, e.g. the Emerald Castle articles on wiki.gg and Fandom. Or Modri Vladis' page on wiki.gg and... nothing on him on the Fandom Wiki! Or just page sections! Like John Brown's trivia on wiki.gg vs his on Fandom.

I hope that the new wiki reaches 900 pages this year^^ and more old pages are refreshed and updated (particularly the arc pages).

Thank you for your support! Migrating a wiki away from Fandom is not easy at all, and I'm always so, so happy to see people peruse and contribute to the new wiki instead of the old one^^ To many more years, more and better content, and a nicer reading/editing experience! <3

You can help out the new wiki by...

... never going on the Fandom Wiki again. Every visit there only strengthens its SEO. Please do not edit the old wiki anymore too, and do not vandalise it now even if it's tempting. Edits only push it more. (Because of Fandom's shitty forking policy, the old wiki cannot be deleted, unfortunately.)

... adding the wiki.gg redirect and Indie Wiki Buddy browser extensions. They send/redirect you to the independent alternative of a Fandom Wiki if such an option exists. (This, of course, helps other wikis that moved too, not just KuroWiki.)

... by sharing the news. "How's the weather?" "Pretty nice, but have you heard that the Kuroshitsuji Wiki moved?"

... by editing. If you want, please feel free to come and edit the wiki! If you used to have a Fandom Wiki account, you can reclaim it here (help for how to do that), or create a new wiki.gg account.

... or by simply visiting and using the new wiki. :)

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

Congratulations to Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki for their clean move from Fandom! And congratulations to Fandom for losing a huge Wiki: their iteration of it, old as it was, has now been closed.

We can say thank you to Fandom for making things easier for everybody. (This is said with a sarcastic tone: they randomly caused issues for a legit Wiki that had been established for years. Some confidence they have.) It's rare for a Wiki to move and have the Fandom Wiki deleted, so personally, I'm overjoyed.

Read your Vocaloid Lyrics over there:

Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

[felikatze]

THE FLASHBANG IS DEAD.

welcome. to all. to the new and improved isatwiki. dark edition.

thanks to the continous efforts of Hab (hotairballoon on the wiki) we have a brand new theme!!! He wrote the entire thing himself, I tested it out, and decided.... it's ready.

there's no more flashbang. no longer will you open isatwiki at 3am, desparately searching for obscure game trivia, only to have your retinas burned out.

if you visit the wiki and the skin is Not there for you - clear your browser's cache.

and if there are any issues with this skin!! poor visibility, thinks displaying weirdly, obscure message windows we missed during testing (i found some really damn obscure message windows, man.), please!!! speak up and let me know. either here or on the wiki channel on discord.

i simply. have to proclaim it to the high heavens. it's dead. it's gone yall. we're no longer rocking that default theme

[cogitopedia]

The Desktop Redesign is Live!

There are some issues but largely everything is working as it should! Please enjoy.

The mobile website will come next to make it more consistent with the new desktop version and fix various issues.

[bliamapriori]

may we see ur wiki,,,,,

The wiki is currently set as private and I'm still learning how to fucking manage a wiki in general so as of this exact moment I am unsure how someone gets to request and receive permission with these settings, but it's definitely my goal to figure out how to do this at some point this year.

I've been super busy this dec/jan so it's not something I've had the time for just yet, but the second shit starts to calm down I want to look into it.

Right now the wiki is full of dictionary entries like this.

And some articles like this one.

But it's not growing super fast so you're really not missing much. At the moment the area with most action is me setting up templates for when I'm ready to start adding Supernalese language dictionary entries.

[utilitycaster]

How hard was it to create/run the CR wiki? Asking as someone who is considering making a non-Fandom wiki for a different fandom

Hey anon! I'm going to keep this brief for a number of reasons but please do not hesitate to message me off anon to chat in depth. We've also had people come into the wiki discord occasionally from other fandoms and ask for advice, if you're interested in doing that!

We copied the Fandom wiki over with full attribution (valid under the specific Creative Commons licenses in use), which had its own challenges but meant we were not starting from scratch on a technical level in terms of both content and templates. If you are creating a brand new wiki rather than a fork of an existing one, you will need to think about infrastructure on a level we mostly have not. I have some general programming background from being in STEM but I'm not a programmer which I add to give some context to what I can contribute to infrastructure. I could not have done this alone, and the setup took about a month, and I'm not going to lie, it was a stressful month. But yeah, can't speak to what it's like from scratch.

As for running: It's definitely a not-insignificant time commitment and one I am trying to be thoughtful in how I manage, but to be honest the bulk of my time commitment is editing rather than administration duties, and your mileage may vary depending on who is joining you. Once the wiki is set up, if you have a strong editorship you can be somewhat hands off (though I think to be a good admin you should be a regular editor, or at least keeping abreast of what's going on). The most difficult things have been deciding how to respond during times of technical/platform issues, or deciding how to handle new content such as Midst or Candela Obscura.

I think my biggest piece of advice is to decide on your policies before you go live. If you write the policies as they are needed without having the bare bones topics (feel free to check out our policy pages, and I recommend a glance at those of both Wikipedia and Wookiepedia, from which we drew a lot of inspiration, to get started) then no matter how good your intentions are you run the risk of acting defensively rather than in the interests of providing a resource to the fandom.

[i-luv-queen]

I’ve been seeing some misconceptions in Katamari lore interpretations, which is why I reorganized the Cosmic Species page to be far more readable. Let me clear some things up while we are here:

•Not all Cousins are blood related to the Prince. However, it is very ambiguous as to which cousins are relatives or friends of the Prince. Exceptions include Marny, Princess, Pokkle, etc.

•Cosmic is technically the proper term for their species. Though it can also be used to describe other species of the Cosmos, it is the best we have. This label has been used in the Chateau Notre Desir and Cowbear stages.

•Sometimes they’re simply as humanoid as we are. They require a lot of the same things as us, including carbohydrates and calcium. These are confirmed through Bandai Namco’s Twitter and the Chateau Notre Desir stage.

•The King has scary teeth

More will be added soon, but please reblog to share.

Cosmic Species

In the Katamari series, characters known as "cousins" are seen throughout the gameplay. However, "Cosmic" is a more accurate name due to the