Fandom (website)
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:
- Author Existence Failure: Can Wikia really exist when they're out of users?
- Awesome Personnel Carrier
- Content Warnings: Especially the spoiler warnings.
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: Admins.
- Everyone Is Gay: Depending on the Wikia's topic...for example, in the Winx Wiki majority of the population are girls.
- Grammar Nazi: Yes.
- Hot Linked: Particularly with deleted images
- 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.
- 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