#wiki stuff

The fact is the mass consolidation of wikis and fan sites into single sites was basically a trap to force those communities to deal with the eventual enshittification of the platform that absorbed them. Some of us had the foresight and hands to see this coming and avoid this, but others are now trying to escape and stand on their own at last. The UESP isn't alone, Indie Wiki Buddy has a pretty good list (and extension to help you find them).

It started with the ban of a word (fag!) and now...

...as of today (Feb. 24, 2026), it has been a year since the new wiki became public on wiki.gg!!!

The new Kuro Wiki: https://kuroshitsuji.wiki.gg/

I, for one, cannot believe it has been a year already! The months leading into 2025 and 2025 as a whole was such a busy time for me, both wiki-wise and life-wise. As a result of that, I am not as far in my wiki editing endeavours as I wished.

Still!

The new wiki is already larger and has more content and information than the old one on Fandom. :) This cannot just be seen from the statistics page alone but from comparing pages too, e.g. the Emerald Castle articles on wiki.gg and Fandom. Or Modri Vladis' page on wiki.gg and... nothing on him on the Fandom Wiki! Or just page sections! Like John Brown's trivia on wiki.gg vs his on Fandom.

I hope that the new wiki reaches 900 pages this year^^ and more old pages are refreshed and updated (particularly the arc pages).

Thank you for your support! Migrating a wiki away from Fandom is not easy at all, and I'm always so, so happy to see people peruse and contribute to the new wiki instead of the old one^^ To many more years, more and better content, and a nicer reading/editing experience! <3

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.

I've already watched the first two episodes last year, but I'm still excited to see them on YouTube! (≧▽≦)

I really need to update Aotu World Reborn's page in the wiki... before I forget or get distracted...

We can say thank you to Fandom for making things easier for everybody. (This is said with a sarcastic tone: they randomly caused issues for a legit Wiki that had been established for years. Some confidence they have.) It's rare for a Wiki to move and have the Fandom Wiki deleted, so personally, I'm overjoyed.

Read your Vocaloid Lyrics over there:

welcome. to all. to the new and improved isatwiki. dark edition.

thanks to the continous efforts of Hab (hotairballoon on the wiki) we have a brand new theme!!! He wrote the entire thing himself, I tested it out, and decided.... it's ready.

there's no more flashbang. no longer will you open isatwiki at 3am, desparately searching for obscure game trivia, only to have your retinas burned out.

if you visit the wiki and the skin is Not there for you - clear your browser's cache.

and if there are any issues with this skin!! poor visibility, thinks displaying weirdly, obscure message windows we missed during testing (i found some really damn obscure message windows, man.), please!!! speak up and let me know. either here or on the wiki channel on discord.

There are some issues but largely everything is working as it should! Please enjoy.

The wiki is currently set as private and I'm still learning how to fucking manage a wiki in general so as of this exact moment I am unsure how someone gets to request and receive permission with these settings, but it's definitely my goal to figure out how to do this at some point this year.

I've been super busy this dec/jan so it's not something I've had the time for just yet, but the second shit starts to calm down I want to look into it.

Right now the wiki is full of dictionary entries like this.

And some articles like this one.

Hey anon! I'm going to keep this brief for a number of reasons but please do not hesitate to message me off anon to chat in depth. We've also had people come into the wiki discord occasionally from other fandoms and ask for advice, if you're interested in doing that!

We copied the Fandom wiki over with full attribution (valid under the specific Creative Commons licenses in use), which had its own challenges but meant we were not starting from scratch on a technical level in terms of both content and templates. If you are creating a brand new wiki rather than a fork of an existing one, you will need to think about infrastructure on a level we mostly have not. I have some general programming background from being in STEM but I'm not a programmer which I add to give some context to what I can contribute to infrastructure. I could not have done this alone, and the setup took about a month, and I'm not going to lie, it was a stressful month. But yeah, can't speak to what it's like from scratch.

As for running: It's definitely a not-insignificant time commitment and one I am trying to be thoughtful in how I manage, but to be honest the bulk of my time commitment is editing rather than administration duties, and your mileage may vary depending on who is joining you. Once the wiki is set up, if you have a strong editorship you can be somewhat hands off (though I think to be a good admin you should be a regular editor, or at least keeping abreast of what's going on). The most difficult things have been deciding how to respond during times of technical/platform issues, or deciding how to handle new content such as Midst or Candela Obscura.