Corporate-owned wikis have ads and other issues, so fans have decided to go their own way
One of the few successful fan wikis that got away from fandom has been the Path of Exile community. I don’t play the game anymore because it just got to be too much for me and demand too much time, but I really appreciate that they collectively got pissed enough at fandom that they made sure that poewiki.net took off.
Edit: even better, the developers (Grinding Gear Games) apparently agreed to take over hosting of the wiki about a year ago so that the community members that started it didn’t have to deal with the financial burden. Definitely a good idea for them to take over hosting so there’s no concern of the owners taking a valuable resource offline.
uesp.net is another one. It’s actually quite a bit older than fandom but I’m still going to count it.
UESP is ancient in game wiki terms, even just internet terms, wasn’t it made shortly after the release of daggerfall?
Successful games really should have the dev/publisher hosting the wiki. It’s better for everyone involved. I’ll always appreciate Arenanet for hosting the Guild Wars 1 and 2 wikis.
