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Proposal to Fork from the FANDOM owned Wikia to a new YGOrganization Operated
My name is Dan, and I’m the owner and operating manager of YGOrganization.com where I’m in charge of advertising, analytics, audio, billing, community management, customer support, digital distribution, HR, recruitment, marketing, monetization, PR, QA, and User Acquisition.
It’s likely most of you have never heard of me, and therefore have no reason to believe my intentions for running this fork are founded in anything, so I’d like to offer again that thread from the start of this year that more clearly illustrates what started a lot of this. [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Tedgill/Making_Ads_Better:_How_We%27re_Going_to_Do_It?page=6#comm-1184717 My reply to one of fandoms proposals, as well as their reply to my input.]
I work regularly with members from Konami and 4K Media as well. They have already directly supported my endeavours, and even the current wiki, through me. I’ve passionately played this game for 17 years, since I was only ten years old, and continue my commitment to bettering it wherever possible, and the wiki is one such place where that is extremely possible.
You’ll notice giant glaring bars where the ads will be. I make no effort to hide the fact that this new wiki will indeed need to generate income to stay open forever, especially if it increases in userbase, but I also make no effort to hide where the ads will be or how the rest of the wiki will look despite even the most distracting possible rectangles I could stuff into the spaces. Feel free to look around and see for yourself the full extent of the ad placements. I want to be completely open about this process and commit to never mis-using those spaces or misrepresenting my intentions.
[[User:DanParkerYugioh|DanParkerYugioh]] ([[User talk:DanParkerYugioh|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/DanParkerYugioh|contribs]]) 17:01, January 1, 2018 (UTC)
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<p style="">Becasita here; admin of this wiki.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">I wholeheartedly support this fork. I've been supporting this project since I first heard about it, in January 2017.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">Wikia/FANDOM has been great, but lately I've been annoyed by some of their policies. The annoying ads, the videos, which are very poorly done, given you can clearly see that people who made them have 0 knowledge on what they're doing and they don't even try to contact the wikis to find someone from there, who has knowledge on the wiki's matters, to make them. Which brings me to the next point: I've been hating how Wikia/FANDOM has been preventing more and more customization. I get it; they're a company, they want to have a standard layout, standard standards, let's say. But one good thing is that users could customize their wiki, give it an identity. It used to feel like a more familiar company. Now, it seems we're reaching the pure business company. That's bad, in my opinion.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">So, no customization in more places. No mobile customization. Everyone knows how horrible the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia looks on mobile, right? We can't use any CSS (styles) or JavaScript to customize the mobile skin. The result? Crude, unorganized display. Why don't they allow it? Because they are developing Portable Infoboxes (PI). They allege PIs are the way to go to make content portable. What does it mean? From what I've seen and from what Wikia/FANDOM was able to show me, it means they have more control over the layout being displayed on mobile. That is, to me, "where should we put ads?". Ads in the middle of an infobox is a disgusting thins, I gotta say. No one wants to be scrolling on mobile and have an add in between two rows of info. It's the future, they say.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">I understand ads are a must. We will have them too in the fork. We need them to keep the site running for you to read it and edit it. But we will try to place them in proper place, without cutting the user experience. The best part is: if we're doing something you don't like, we will try to adapt. We want to listen to our user base, to try and come up with the best experience for all that we can. Which brings me to the point: Wikia doesn't do this. They are a company, I get it. Like I said it seems they more and more go to the pure business way (profit over whatever). It's fair, I guess. Not my approach of choice, though. I think listening to the users will make a project/company more able to grab their users and provide a more pleasant, happier environment. There were several issues with Wikia/FANDOM about this; about the fact the users complain but they say "we have statistics saying [stuff that contradicts what every experienced user says]", but they never show them... So yeah.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">With this, I don't want to paint Wikia/FANDOM as evil, I don't. But, heck, I'm unsatisfied. I am. Having a staff member coming to our Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia and start implementing PI just because they want, even if the majority of the community (at least of the admin's team) does not consent, with the excuse "one admin said yes and he is the founder" (talking about TwoTailedFox), it's rubbish, if I may say. [[Forum:New Portable-style Infoboxes|Here's a link as an example.]]</p>
<p style="text-indent: 2em;">Ok, there's probably more, but I don't want to leave a huge wall of text that will push people to not read it. Any more stuff, I'll add later.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">Too long don't read version:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; text-indent: 2em;">'''I've been unsatisfied with several Wikia/FANDOM's policies and enforcements. We will have full control over the fork. I support this fork!'''</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">Best regards,</p>
<div style="margin-top: 0;"><span class="nowrap">[[User:Becasita|Becasita]] <sup><small>Pendulum</small></sup></span> <span class="nowrap">([[User talk:Becasita|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Becasita|contribs]])</span> 17:04, January 1, 2018 (UTC)</div>
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