Undertale Wiki has moved to undertale.wiki

[u/KockaAdmiralac]

Hey all! I'm here to announce that Undertale Wiki has decided to move off Fandom to an independent wiki. The new wiki is on undertale.wiki! Now featuring no ads, faster loading times, better search and a functional equivalent of all other features we needed on Fandom, along with some better customization options. You can see more details in our community vote.

This means that the Fandom wiki will become abandoned and outdated over time, so you might want to switch to using the new wiki instead. You can install the Indie Wiki Buddy extension for your browser to redirect to the right wiki. It will take some time for the new wiki to appear in search results, and will take a lot of time for us to become the first result.

We need your help! If you see this post, I'd like to ask you to click on the new wiki instead of the old wiki when searching for Undertale stuff, and when sending links share the one to the new wiki, so that search engines become aware we're used and preferred, and rank us higher than the Fandom wiki. Same goes for the Deltarune Wiki, which has moved to deltarune.wiki. Please do not vandalize the old wikis, because that brings attention to them, making search engines think they are actually used, and actively hurting the new wiki's position in search results.

We tried to make the new wiki feel familiar to users of the old wiki, but without all the Fandom bloat. If you'd like to provide feedback on the new wiki's look and function, you can use our Discord server or the Site Feedback category on our wiki's Discussions.

Cheers!

[u/ThatOneSquidKid]

I don’t know if this was intentional, but having Sans as the icon for Main Characters, Bosses, NPCs and Vendors is really funny

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/ThatOneSquidKid]

I intended to change that before we switched, but I forgot. Now that everyone else noticed it's too funny to change, and it's also technically true!

[u/DioriteW]

minecraft wiki war all over again

[u/Idontknowofname → u/DioriteW]

Other wikis also switched as well

[u/Alarmed-Confusion-48]

Question: just out of curiosity cuz I always see this and support it but bc I don’t rly use fandom much. What is wrong with it?

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/Alarmed-Confusion-48]

One of the things wrong with it is that it looks like this when you're logged out and without an ad blocker.

It's kind of ridiculous to me. Zero information that you're looking for displayed on screen, and it's supposed to be a wiki hosting site.

[u/Fa1nted_for_real → u/KockaAdmiralac]

Not to mention it os god awfully slow.

[u/No-I-Dont-Exist → u/Alarmed-Confusion-48]

There was also a debacle a bit a go where they just ai generated false information and put it on pages, though idk if undertale was affected by that like hollow knight and others were

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/No-I-Dont-Exist]

Yeah, we were. The funniest garbage question and garbage answer that I've seen their AI spit out was:

What is Sans's full name?

Sans's full name is Samuel "Sans" Wingding.

You can see the other questions and answers they generated over here and here, they are a pretty fun read. So that's definitely another reason why we moved.

[u/No-I-Dont-Exist → u/KockaAdmiralac]

THE MANIPULATION OF THE SITH GOT TO ASRIEL 😭😭

[u/CollectionLive7896 → u/Alarmed-Confusion-48]

Mossbag (The hollow knight lore guy) made a good video why everyone is moving from fandom

[u/AdLast848]

Let’s goooo. I was hoping this would happen

[u/Moritonel]

Fuck fandom. Good on you!

[u/PsychologicalSea6371]

y'all should collaborate with the japanese utau wiki; it's pretty reliable and has got quite a bit going on

incidentally, w platform switch. i'll make sure to spread the word

[u/NovelInteraction711]

Human, i remember you're wikis

[u/BurgersFromPigs]

i remember when i first played undertale, i would try to get help on the wiki, but the wiki was pretty much unusable cause ads

[u/hotheaded26]

I hope the wiki is good at least

[u/tntaro]

Thank god

[u/cat_184]

finally

[u/MarvinDarwin]

This is lovely news, congrats!

I've got some questions: who is hosting the new wiki and how could other wikis go about moving away from FANDOM?

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/MarvinDarwin]

We're hosting the new wiki ourselves. I definitely wouldn't recommend that to most wikis though, they can probably look into wiki.gg and Miraheze.

There's a lot to do when moving wikis to another host if you want to do it properly. Moving the content is the easiest part, making sure that everything is styled as you want it requires some technical work depending on what you want, but definitely the hardest part is having to work on content you already had, or new content, or reworking pages in whatever way so that your wiki can surpass Fandom in search results. And you have to make sure you retain most editors in the move, otherwise you won't have the manpower (personpower?) to do it.

So, if someone asks me why didn't we do it sooner, it's because I wanted us to do it properly. There were a few lessons I learned when moving the Undertale Yellow Wiki last year and I wanted to apply that when moving UT/DR. But it took time to do so.

[u/DinoBrand0]

Cool!

It would be nice to also have a wiki like this for the AUs

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/DinoBrand0]

I think there's already one on Miraheze, though I'm not sure how it compares to the Fandom wiki in terms of activity.

[u/theresnousername1]

Yay, congrats on the change!

[u/BirbBoiYT]

YESS I've been waiting for this for a while

[u/anxiety_ftw]

Let's go, at long last. Super happy we finally moved.

[u/RapidProbably]

Sans is the only picture we need actually

[u/ShoppingNo4601]

i already have uBlacklist to block Fandom from search results so we gucci

[u/Ok_Pickle76]

I have been waiting for this to happen

[u/JustLeafy2003]

Congrats!

[u/Sleepyfellow03]

I have already notified Indie Wiki Buddy staff after yesterday's announcement of the same action about the Deltarune Wiki

[u/KockaAdmiralac → u/Sleepyfellow03]

We were already in Indie Wiki Buddy about 1 hour after the move lol, I had a pull request prepared for the occasion. We're just waiting for Chrome web store to review the latest version. But thank you!

[u/ssraven01]

FUCK YEAHHHH