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Wikia, also known as FANDOM powered by Wikia, is a wiki hosting service founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. It is notable for hosting many fanwikis, such as WoWWiki and Wookieepedia. However, many wikis have left the site due to discontent over policies such as advertising and the (at the time) new "Oasis" skin, implemented against the majority of the community's will.

Tropes used in Fandom (website) include:

Ad Nauseam: A long string of forced reskins, which crowd out content to make room for more paid display advertising and more advertising for other Wikia projects.
Anthropomorphic Personification: These folks used to be fine with the Furry Fandom and others, back when they were still small and needed the traffic. The community has since parted ways.
Author Existence Failure: Can Wikia really exist when they're out of users?
Awesome Personnel Carrier
Broken Base: There's a long list of communities which have voluntarily left. In most cases, Wikia leaves the old project open as a direct competitor, permanently fracturing the community.
Censorship Bureau: All the news that doesn't offend the advertiser, we print. Among the communities thrown under the bus, some of whom were with Wikia almost from the beginning: Spanking Art (2008), Anime Bath Scene (2018), Fetish Fuel Wiki (2019) and roughly twenty-two languages of Uncyclopedia (2019).
Content Warnings: Especially the spoiler warnings.
Don't Make Me Destroy You: Admins.
Even Evil Has Standards: Wikia retaliates in various subtle ways against communities who try to leave, but they're utter angels compared to Internet Brands, who sued their own users for trying to leave Wikitravel for Wikivoyage in 2012.
Everyone Is Gay: Depending on the Wikia's topic...for example, in the Winx Wiki majority of the population are girls.
Fair Use: Stretched pretty much to its limits or beyond. Most of the wikis are commentary on well-known copyrighted entertainment franchises, which use large numbers of images from the original work.
Grammar Nazi: Yes.
Hot Linked: Particularly with deleted images
Inn of No Return: A group of wikis, including WoWpedia, left Wikia for a competitor (Gamepedia, which ended up part of Curse Media) – largely due to intrusive advertising. Wikia then bought Curse Media, so ultimately "they check in, but they don't check out".
Insistent Terminology: Wikis hosted on Wikia are not wikis, they are wikias.
Law of Wiki Expansion
Locked Pages
All The Tropes:Strong Language Usage Rules
Post Count: The editcount.
Reading Your Rights: Admins and Bureaucrats.
Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement
Stillborn Franchise: Wikia Search.
Someday This Will Come in Handy: Has been known to cause attempts to invoke this trope.
The Wiki Rule: Wikia is one of the major reasons this Trope exists.
Vitalizing Edit
Walkthrough Mode: Especially in gaming wikis.
Take That: A heavy reliance on search engine duplicate content penalties to utterly crush communities who try to take their content elsewhere and leave Wikia. Staff routinely censor info about the split on the old wiki to prevent users from finding the new project.
Wikia Will Ruin Your Life: Of course, the same can be said for other wiki hosts (such as Shoutwiki or Miraheze).
Wiki Magic
Wiki Curator
Wiki Vandal

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+*  [[Ad Nauseam]]: A long string of forced reskins, which crowd out content to make room for more paid display advertising and more advertising for other Wikia projects.
-*  [[Author Existence Failure]]: Can Wikia really exist when they're out of users?
+*  [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: These folks used to be fine with the [[Furry Fandom]] and others, back when they were still small and needed the traffic. The community has since parted ways.
+*  [[Author Existence Failure]]: Can Wikia really exist when they're [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/31/wikipedia out of users]?
 *  [[Awesome Personnel Carrier]]
+*  [[Broken Base]]: There's a long list of [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis communities which have voluntarily left]. In most cases, Wikia leaves the old project open as a direct competitor, permanently fracturing the community.
+*  [[Censorship Bureau]]: All the news that doesn't offend the advertiser, we print. Among the communities thrown [[Thrown Under The Bus|under the bus]], some of whom were with Wikia almost from the beginning: Spanking Art (2008), Anime Bath Scene (2018), [[Fetish Fuel]] Wiki (2019) and roughly twenty-two languages of [[Uncyclopedia]] (2019).
 *  [[Content Warnings]]: Especially the spoiler warnings.
 *  [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Admins.
+*  [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Wikia [[Take That|retaliates]] in various subtle ways against communities who try to leave, but they're [[We Suck Less|utter angels]] compared to [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html Internet Brands, who sued their own users] for trying to leave Wikitravel for Wikivoyage in 2012.
 *  [[Everyone Is Gay]]: Depending on the Wikia's topic...for example, in the Winx Wiki majority of the population are girls.
+*  [[Fair Use]]: Stretched pretty much to its limits or beyond. Most of the wikis are commentary on well-known copyrighted entertainment franchises, which use large numbers of images from the original work.
 *  [[Grammar Nazi]]: Yes.
 *  [[Hot Linked]]: Particularly with deleted images
+*  [[Inn of No Return]]: A group of wikis, including WoWpedia, left Wikia for a competitor (Gamepedia, which ended up part of Curse Media) – largely due to [[Internet Ads|intrusive advertising]]. Wikia then bought Curse Media, so ultimately "they check in, but they don't check out".
 *  [[Insistent Terminology]]: Wikis hosted on Wikia are not wikis, they are wiki''a''s.
 *  [[Law of Wiki Expansion]]
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 *  [[Vitalizing Edit]]
 *  [[Walkthrough Mode]]: Especially in gaming wikis.
+*  [[Take That]]: A heavy reliance on search engine duplicate content penalties to utterly crush communities who try to take their content elsewhere and leave Wikia. Staff routinely [[Censorship Bureau|censor info about the split]] on the old wiki to prevent users from finding the new project.
 *  [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|Wikia Will Ruin Your Life]]: Of course, the same can be said for other wiki hosts (such as Shoutwiki or Miraheze).
 *  [[Wiki Magic]]