Goodbye Wowpedia, hello?

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Gotcha. I just see blank spaces where the ads might be normally. I guess its not intrusive, but I can see where it would be if you didnt block them.

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Blizzard does seem to have some API documentation on their own site for multiple games (not just WoW, but WoW is definitely there).

https://develop.battle.net/documentation/world-of-warcraft/game-data-apis

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Wowy McWowface

Edit well this thread is disappointing i thought ppl wouldve been pitching names to replace the site.

But it looks like a responsible discussion on the validity of external sites. Booooring

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Most agree, however Fandom (previously Wikia) owns wowwiki and has refused to shut it down whenever it’s been asked. Fandom then bought out Gamepedia (which is where wowpedia moved to). Meaning, despite how many times the admins ask fandom to remove it, they will refuse as Fandom likes gaining the ad revenue, regardless of it causing confusion and bad user experiences…

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Wowwiki was abandoned 13 years ago when they migrated to create Wowpedia. So ofc it’s out of date, its just that Fandom refuses to take it down.

Wowpedia is fairly up-to-date with most things and there’s a large team of admins and editors working to keep it up to date as much as we can, but there’s so much content and not enough people. You’re welcome to help out with updating it once we get to the new site rather than just complaining though :wink:

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Is it good bye or hello i’m so confused

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It’s moving to a new host, and possibly rebranding to a new name (warcraftwiki is in the lead with votes right now)

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it’s a “hello again”

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No no.

you say goodbye. I say hello

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Wowhead is for in game stuff like quests and items and news. Wowpedia, though it has pages on those things is more for lore and story stuff. If I want to know the history of the Night Elf Sentinels, I don’t go to Wowhead.

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I hope they keep Wowpedia. This is a case of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

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So no more seven thousand pop up ads on my phone when I use it? Those screen fading ones were obnoxious! I can’t fathom how Fandom thought that was a good idea. Oof.

I don’t know if y’all found a place to migrate to, but Palia uses wiki.gg and I kind of like their setup.

I still like it as Wowpedia. :frowning:

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It has already been decided we’re moving to wiki.gg . The migration has already begun on the backend.

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Sweet. :slight_smile: Good luck and if there’s any way I can help, just let me know!

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I go to those sites for WoW API references.

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WoWpeida or WoWwiki, one of those, are pretty decent with old patch notes. If I recall.

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why would they do that here?
isn’t that what the external link is for? :thinking:

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i primarily use wowhead, but never on my phone other than to earn a daily login, as there is no ad blocker for my mobile browser.

still my favorite wowpedia article:

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Wowpedia is mostly alright. Wowwiki, in addition to being outdated in general, is also infested with malware.

Absolutely garbage site. Worse than Wowhead at its lowest point in Legion/early BFA (although Wowhead absolutely cleaned up its horrible ad network since then and is good).

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Warcraftpedia should be the obvious choice.

The Warcraft ip is expanding