Thread:Quick/@comment-362861-20200611184546/@comment-44357944-20200613044303

Hello, I'm Joey. I have been talking to TornadoMan.EXE over twitter recently! I wanted to talk about you guys moving from fandom and why it is a good idea, Fandom has been changing from a traditional wiki site to a click bait and ad based site, its getting closer to social media applications like amino, while not exactly a bad thing, this brings down the reputation of the whole brand. Fandom pushing out major limitations on what can be done to pages on a site and also forcing their own videos onto the site has been a problem for various wiki owners from what I've heard from. Fandom's lack of security has lead to more populated wikis being the victim of vandalization with no way of telling who did it. Fandom is more so a brand than a platform now, and it is looking to become more of a tattered place.

So, why am I here.

Well, I've been scrolling through this wiki for at least four years of my life on an almost daily basis and I wanted to see it enter a more open environment where it can stand on its own, gather attention from not just old mega man fans but new ones too, along with that there are people dedicated to all parts of the franchise, wether it be art, plot or the games themselves! Mega Man is going to have a long dedicated following and that will rise in the near future, Fandom uses a MediaWiki form released in 2012, it is a mildly outdated site, now is a time to update and reach out with connections from the community.

I propose that the Mega Man Knowledge Base create a patreon and twitter account, explaining their cause to go and preserve the MMKB wiki and fork it over to a new website hosted with a brand new MediaWiki format, this site would have all the content of the original, but much more cleaned up. If you are able to directly talk to people in the community for information such as Number20, Protodude, Reploid 21XX, you may be able to update the new wiki to have updated and more accurate info. One thing I'd personally like to see is brand new high quality scans for character images, tabs on character and game pages for easier navigation, an updated timeline page where you can follow the chronological publication of all Mega Man media, updated front page with twitter news feed, log of new edits, and other features that could be suggested by community members.

I also understand that not everyone on MMKB's staff has the time, dedication or experience to handle a patreon, fork the site over to a new one, or edit and make new extensions... But there are a lot of Mega Man fans that I think would be very interested, I will do my part to help spread awareness to the MMKB moving sites if you are all interested in doing this. Searching for a PR manager should be your first mission if you do want to move from MMKB, and also an easier place to talk and discuss this like discord would be nice.