The Gray Angel

The end result is surprisingly small: only 1.3 GB! You can download it here: https://archive.org/details/wiki-gender.fandom.com-20260401

That 1.3 GB archive includes the images on Gender Wiki. If you just want the text contents, you can download the database dumps, which are even smaller. The full database including edit history is a tiny 12.4 MB. The database that includes only current pages is an even tinier 5.7 MB. Comments and discussions on the Fandom wiki are not included in the database dumps.

A minor note: updates to the wiki made within the last few days might not be preserved in these archives.

In a reply to the original announcement, a member of Fandom staff informed us that Fandom's decision was final, and the Gender Wiki will be closed on April 13. We will no longer be making an effort to change their mind, because clearly it will fall on deaf ears; Fandom still refuses to give us any real answers (such as to why Gender Wiki staff wasn't consulted before this decision).

However, we will not disappear. The wiki is being archived by WikiBot and should appear on this site within 24 hours, thanks to help from ArchiveTeam. Additionally, I'm working with a few users on a possible project that will organize a public "archive" on Tumblr, in which anyone can post all the information about a given gender and tag it, so the information is not lost and is kept accessible.

The Gender Wiki staff is also currently in conversations about moving the wiki to a public and editable site again. At this point it is most likely that we will move to another site (though we have now been turned down by Miraheze), and continue from there. After this experience, our ultimate goal may be self-hosting, but this is still a little farther out than two weeks, as we lack experience with self-hosting and that advanced level of coding. (Experienced advice is welcome.)

I'd like to thank everyone, a thousand times, for all the things you've said, in reblogs to my original post or in signatures on the petition. It makes me so incredibly happy to know that our work on the Gender Wiki has positively affected so many people --- because that was /always/ the goal.

Please, please do not harass any particular people about this, even the user who posted the notice on the Gender Wiki. You can make posts targeted at Fandom as a whole, but don't target or harass any person.

That being said, I don't recommend relying on any one archive. I suggest migrating to another wiki hosting platform like Miraheze. I'm not familiar will all the wiki hosts out there. There might be an even better one for your purposes. I just know Miraheze is one good option.

If you choose Miraheze, you can try following this guide. Miraheze has an application process that takes some time because someone has to manually review your application. But I bet if you put in the application and then went on their Discord/IRC and explained the circumstances, you could probably get an expedited review.

Take this as you will. Unfortunately, it gets worse than it was before.

Here's my original post if you haven't seen it.

Link to Fandom staff member's reply.

Direct text of the response:

"Fandom recognizes that gender identity is a deeply personal and complex subject, and we believe it’s important for individuals to be able to access accurate, well-sourced, and responsible information when exploring it. As this wiki has evolved in recent years, we feel it has not presented gender identity information in a responsible way and we are no longer comfortable hosting it as such - even beyond the pages being asked about presently."

What I took from that, personally:

Fandom loves the idea of presenting as an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. (They know half the users on Fandom are queer, come on. They have to at least act like they care.) They acknowledge how important it is to document queer information with sites like the Gender Wiki. HOWEVER, the wiki's definition of gender doesn't fit their opinion ("we feel it has not presented gender identity info in a responsible way"? Seriously? We make an effort to make sure every page is meticulously sourced, except ones that don't exist anywhere else). Therefore, Fandom has decided they're going to close it anyway because of their own discomfort. ("Discomfort." Did I ask if you were comfortable? No???) The problem was never with the "pages breaking the rules". It was with ALL THE PAGES.

UPDATE: Fandom has told us that their decision is final, and the wiki will be deleted on April 13. (I shouldn't have to say it, but please do not harass anyone about this.)

I'm going to leave this post up for future reference, but some of the information on it (especially about archiving work) is outdated & shouldn't be used. More details can be found on this post.

Hello, Tumblr. I've never posted here, only lurked. But this is one of the most important things in the world to me, and I honestly need to ask you for help. Please reblog if you can.

This will be a long post. It will be summarized with a TLDR at the end, including ways that you can help.

With over 9,200 pages, we are the biggest collection of gender identities on the Internet, especially the biggest source that is readily available. We are a community that has existed since 2009, and has taken off in terms of growth in the last few years.

Today, Fandom decided to close the Gender Wiki. We were given absolutely no warning, and they've only given us a two-week deadline to move the entire wiki to a new host, which we are utterly unprepared to do. The download would also not include any of the 17,000+ images on the Gender Wiki, many of which do not exist anywhere else on the Internet.

Here is a link to the post Fandom staff gave us today, and a paraphrased summary of it below:

https://gender.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000132176

Fandom staff says that they won't continue to host our wiki because it "spreads harmful misinformation". They believe we have gone too far in "positioning everything as a gender identity", referring to xenogenders. They mention pages with xenogenders referring to suicide/self-harm and violence --- which we, the staff members, were /already/ in the process of deleting before this notice was given to us. They decided that the best solution was not to ask us to delete those pages, or even delete the pages themselves, but instead to remove our entire database.

There are many other wikis on Fandom with much worse references to violence than the Gender Wiki, which Fandom appears to have no problem with whatsoever.

I cannot express enough that this is erasure, and it will absolutely negatively affect the LGBTQ+ community to not have this treasure trove of information readily available.

I am an admin on the Gender Wiki, and I can assure you that our entire staff team is already trying to appeal to Fandom staff. I'll add any updates if they decide to respond to us, but they have no yet given staff any more information than the above

PLEASE help in any way you can. Reblog, spread awareness, or sign this petition if you have a Fandom account, OR sign this petition instead if you don't --- please DON'T sign both, as this causes counting problems & can make the point seem less legitimate. (NOTE added Apr 1: The archiving project is on hold because we've lost the archiving site for an unknown reason. Pages don't Archive correctly. I will update soon with more info.) Archive any Gender Wiki pages, especially ones that don't have pages elsewhere, with the Wayback Machine or alternatively archive.is, or even write posts about them here or on other sites. Archives will be organized on this spreadsheet; please include the archiving site you used so they can be found later. Please help us save this information. It can't possibly be done this quickly without help.

TLDR: Fandom staff decided that, in two weeks, they will close the Gender Wiki, the biggest gender resource on the Internet. They gave us no warning. It will be impossible to save all of the information on the wiki. Please reblog or sign this petition if you have a Fandom account, OR this one if you don't (please don't sign both, it'll cause problems). Help save the data by archiving pages here or here (organized on this spreadsheet). (NOTE added Apr 1: archiving project currently on hold. Archiving sites aren't working.) Help spread awareness. Post about this with #save the gender wiki