#fandom wiki migration

As of today (February 24, 2025), the Kuroshitsuji Wiki has left Fandom Wiki and moved officially to wiki.gg! The new wiki can be found here!

From now on, only this wiki will be updated, not the Fandom one.

Why did this happen?

Please read these posts to learn all the reasons why the wiki was ultimately moved.

TL;DR: Fandom's latest policy auto-blocked the word "fag," making a good portion of the wiki uneditable. Fandom, as a site and wiki farm, has become increasingly bad and hostile over the years for many, many other reasons too.

What is new?

Amongst others:

More information: I revised/expanded some pages during the onboarding phase. Not as many as I wanted to, but some nonetheless! I also revamped the layout of the arc pages, though the summaries are still works in progress. I've started adding voice actors to the episode pages (Season 1 is finished, the rest will follow). Ch108 was mistakenly sorted into the Blue Cult Arc though it still belongs to the Emerald Witch Arc; this was fixed. Etc.

(Screenshot from Harcourt's Fandom article. That was a pitiable section orz (Clayton and Cheslock were not better off, embarrassingly.))

More themes/skins: On Fandom, you could only switch between light and dark mode. I put together four different themes for the new wiki, two of which commemorate S4 and S5 :) I hope they are to your liking!

Link hover previews: If you hover over a link now, you get a little preview of the page!

A better, prettier mobile experience: Colours and customisations are now retained on mobile. The references section now looks normal and does not send you on an endless scrolling spree. References actually pop up when you click on them. Etc.

Less ads!!!: THE #1 grievance people have with Fandom Wiki. wiki.gg has very few ads (and they are unintrusive ads too) on both desktop and mobile. If you are logged in, there are no ads whatsoever.

The move of one particular spoiler page (information under the cut)

(And some more things that might be too boring to list here, heh.)

And, of course, the freedom from Fandom and its horrible whims. Pages containing the word "fag" can now be edited again :)

(The little trivia that started it all: I wanted to add it to Diedrich's page and move on to a gazillion other things when I got the notice that my edit was blocked by Fandom's spam filter. It's finally on his page! It only took four months and one site migration...)

What can I do?

You can help out the new wiki by...

... never going on the Fandom Wiki again. Every visit there only strengthens its SEO. Please do not edit the old wiki anymore too, and do not vandalise it now even if it's tempting. Edits only push it more. (Because of Fandom's shitty forking policy, the old wiki cannot be deleted, unfortunately.)

... adding the wiki.gg redirect and Indie Wiki Buddy browser extensions. They send/redirect you to the independent alternative of a Fandom Wiki if such an option exists. (This, of course, helps other wikis that moved too, not just KuroWiki.)

... by sharing the news. "How's the weather?" "Pretty nice, but have you heard that the Kuroshitsuji Wiki moved?"

... by editing. If you want, please feel free to come and edit the wiki! If you used to have a Fandom Wiki account, you can reclaim it here (help for how to do that), or create a new wiki.gg account.

... or by simply visiting and using the new wiki.

I'm so happy the migration is finally done. I hope you like the new wiki, and thank you so much for all the lovely words you had regarding this migration and for all your help!^^ I'll go and continue editing the wiki with new joy and getting to the gazillion things I planned but haven't been able to do during the onboarding.*

*wikis are just never done...

And hello...

:)

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Regarding that one spoiler page (Ch129 onwards, if you know you know):

Hello! I mainly set up this tumblr because I have something very important to inform you about and discuss regarding the Kuroshitsuji Wiki.

As you may know, the wiki is currently hosted by a company called Fandom, and you may also know about Fandom Wiki's terrible reputation that has been becoming worse with every year.

And after years of gritting my teeth and continuing on regardless of Fandom Wiki's many ridiculous, sudden changes, I have finally reached my last straw. I could live with (albeit be very annoyed about) the layout changes and the replacement of Forums with Discussions, for example, because, at the very least, I could still edit the wiki. And editing the wiki and filling it with info is what I chose to do nearly a decade ago - and what I genuinely love to do.

Well, and then Fandom Wiki introduced their latest policy.

With their latest policy (the Offensive Terms Policy), Fandom implemented an automatic filter that bans certain words to enforce this policy. Unfortunately, the policy and its accompanying filter system has rendered a good chunk of the Kuroshitsuji Wiki uneditable because, as you might have correctly guessed, one of the now-prohibited words is fag.

Because enough is enough, I want to propose moving the Kuroshitsuji Wiki to another platform.

I've been so afraid of moving the wiki but I'm not afraid anymore. However, while I can move it elsewhere alone, I cannot and do not want to decide this all by myself. Wikis are for the community, and that's why I want to ask you what you think about the Kuroshitsuji Wiki migrating/forking from Fandom Wiki.

For that, I have prepared a survey, and I would be very grateful if you could participate in it. The survey contains everything I wrote here and much more (i.a. on the policy and Fandom Wiki's past misdeeds) so that you are properly informed and can make an informed decision.