The future of the Bejeweled Wiki
That's a tagline to sort of get your attention, ain't it?
Well with that sort-of obvious quote out of the way, some of you may have already noticed the big yellow notice on the homepage, but let's get the full rundown for what we can say right now:
The Bejeweled Wiki has been giving you the most striving quality information for Bejeweled games since the wiki was founded on July 31, 2008. During the hottest and darkest times of the franchise (and PopCap), the Bejeweled Wiki strives for accurate information about those great, distracting, shiny jewels. With over 700 articles, the Bejeweled Wiki is one of the biggest Bejeweled resources on the internet!
Now I'm sure you're aware our wiki runs and is stored on Fandom's codebase (formerly Wikia until 2016); it's unmistakable especially when the bar on the left side of the screen promoting Fandom's popular wiki bases and Disney/Warner Bros-bias is permanently shoved on all our faces (unless you're editing an article). Before Fandom's change, Wikia had served us super well on editing and allowing us to give you easy access to info here!
Now, we've been living on Fandom for a good 15 years. This wiki has been on the platform during Wikia's early years, just 4 years in, even when Bejeweled was still hot all around prior to EA! That's quite a legacy to maintain. However, there has been a great number of rising concerns going on not just here, and not just other wikis, but Fandom as a whole. Fandom's recent problematic and controversial decisions to the platform (watch the video for full context) (constantly changing UI, the forced decision of Fandom to use the new UI was what also allowed more ads to leak through every wiki on the platform, the platform beginning to include mandatory AI-generated "quick facts" which are extremely inaccurate and generate misinformation, as well as acquiring other wiki platforms and unifying their platform elements to those other platforms) in particular have made the editing and reading experience much more uncomfortable to maintain. We have been having conversations on the wiki's Discord server channels and after some talk, we have made the decision to abandon operations on Fandom and migrate all our existing content to a new wiki host.
We are working with a representative for the new platform to move all our existing content, so all your contributions to the wiki will be maintained and transferred over to the new wiki platform once it opens. I'll update over here when I have more information about the move and the wiki host that the Bejeweled Wiki will move to, so sit tight out there! We advise against editing for the time being while we migrate our data, as some new edits made here may not be recorded on the new wiki platform. The new platform will allow us to have a more detailed interface as well as showing fewer ads!
What does this mean for this wiki though? Once the migration is complete, this Fandom wiki will no longer be maintained by the administrators and moderators, and may be subject to misinformation in the future. While this wiki will eventually be subject to adoption once the period of inactivity reaches to an abandoned status, we recommend you all to continue reading and editing on the new platform once it opens.
For a quick rundown for those short on time:
Bejeweled Wiki is moving to a new platform (TBA)!
Fandom's company decisions have made it difficult to continue using the platform for editing and reading enjoyability
All our content is being migrated to a new platform, we'll be announcing the new wiki host and other things as soon as we have news ready to share. One thing we can assure you that there will be fewer ads on the new platform, and nowhere near as much as Fandom forces against our will!
Any existing edit contributions will be kept during the platform transition.
We'll update as soon as we have new info on the migration. Till then, sit tight!
-Nick C.
(if you were wondering the forced AI answers was the final straw)
