Hi, you might have noticed a new tab at the top of the website!
My Wiki
I have mentioned, I think, in a few posts that I have a personal wiki for my own fantasy world. It is called Aenín. I use this homebrew setting for some tidbits of writing (i might publish them here someday), as well as for my D&D campaign. It is a very useful tool and allows me to easily browse through related topics/areas of the setting, which at this point has grown too big to contain only in my head. I have written over 140 pages on it (a lot are stubs, though, tbf).
The Terrible Site
For the last couple of years now that wiki project has been hosted on fandom.com, as to me it seemed the most accessible and easy to use at the time. All you needed was an account, plus all the major wikis were on there, and most still are. However, I have since heard several voices in the fan community that have taken umbrage with the site. Apparently it is terrible towards its creators, and the ads on it are simply a menace. Most of these issues don’t apply to me and my small-time, personal wiki, but when the official Minecraft wiki migrated away from the site I also decided I had enough.
I can’t support a site that exploits and abuses its own main contributors, and even keeps using their content for their own ad revenue after those contributors have left, as many now have. That’s why I’ve decided to move my wiki away as well.
Where to?
That left just a tiny question: where to?
Of course I could try to find another wiki site, but there’d still be the problem that that content would technically not be my own. But why do that when I had the perfect solution right here in my hands already? I’ve had this site for a while now, and it seems a waste not using it now that the opportunity has presented itself. Sure I’d need to figure out some stuff, but there’s probably guides for that on the internet, right?
Here!
And with that, I went off! I found a nice plugin that allowed me to make wiki pages and easily link them together, installed it, and just started writing. I figured out how to add a tab to the top menu, and how to replace the sidebar on wiki pages to show wiki activity and not blog posts (that one was a bit tricky).
Which leaves us at the point we’re at now. Operation Migration, as I like to call it, is at 50/143 as I write this, with a lot more to come! A whole new area to explore on this site, more outlets for creativity, all brought together in one area for comfort. I hope you’ll enjoy this new addition to the site.
Love,
~ Sanne