TL;DR - Should we stop requiring people to exclusively document content on Fandom due to Fandom's excessive advertisements? And if so, what should it be replaced with?

Greetings interlopers!

I intend to sponsor a measure which, if approved, will remove the first point of the United Federation of Travelers Constitution § VII. CIVILIZATION & AMBASSADOR CODE OF CONDUCT:

• You must use the Gamepedia wiki as your primary documentation tool.

I was the primary actor in pushing the entire No Man's Sky community (not even just the Fed, ultimately) to use Gamepedia as a documentation database over all other options which were utilized at the time, notably Wikia and Orcz.

This decision was made for a variety of reasons: Gamepedia had the most up-to-date information, it had the best website formatting, it had the most robust article / page formatting options, and it wasn't inundated by ads.

That last point is the crux of my proposal. I challenge anyone to visit the No Man's Sky Fandom wiki on mobile without an ad blocker and without being logged in. Ads will frequently take up half of the page, and some ads don't even disappear fully when you scroll down.

This isn't an entirely surprising development: as I said, one of the wiki farms which I intentionally pushed the NMS community away from due to its low-quality nature and excessive advertisements was Wikia. Well, Wikia - now known as Fandom - purchased Gamepedia and, in my view, ruined the NMS wiki by implementing the exact same practices which inspired me to avoid using Wikia years ago.

The logical question, then, is: "If not Fandom, what should we use?" That's what this discussion will determine. It is my personal view that we should encourage the use of the NMS Miraheze. Miraheze is a volunteer-run, donation-paid platform with zero ads, created largely to rival Fandom and other corporate wiki farms. However, I choose the word "encourage" intentionally - I do not think it serves the Federation to require any specific site to be used, at this stage in the community's life. This means civilizations which already use Fandom and have no desire to switch would not be expected to make any change. (However, Miraheze formatting is almost identical to Fandom in most cases, and pages can be directly migrated.)

The Galactic Hub has already established our own GH-dedicated Miraheze, meaning we're technically in violation of the UFT Constitution. I'd like to remedy that by updating the Constitution, because there's no chance of us ever returning to Fandom (except to update major pages, like the main Galactic Hub Project page, for recruitment purposes).

Thank you fellow Ambassadors, and good journeys!

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