If we’re comfortable with the traffic impacts, we may eventually put a permanent redirect in place after a certain point, simply close old projects, or even do nothing if that ends up being the best approach. We will then monitor and evaluate traffic over time. What this will involve is that, rather than using what are known as 301 or 302 redirects to funnel traffic from one wiki to another, the wiki that is being merged into the other will be locked to all editing and feature a large banner directing users to the new “home” wiki.

Having studied the impacts of the last two crossovers, we’ve developed a new test plan that we believe should alleviate any traffic impacts from wiki merges that may be associated with this project. On top of all of that, it’s simply been a very busy time for everyone at both Fandom and Curse as we work to form a combined organization and continue to learn more and more about one another. We found some concerning issues in those cases about how domain redirection impacted traffic and SEO, and we needed to explore additional options to ensure that we’re making the best choices for our communities and ourselves as a business. We did an early test of this in December, where we merged Gamepedia’s Diep.io Wiki into Fandom’s, making Fandom’s Diep.io Wiki the Official Wiki for the game and merged Fandom’s Encyclopedia Gamia into Codex Gamicus, which resolved a fork. That’s why we’re starting with smaller or inactive communities, which I’ll get more into in a moment. We also anticipate that this will be a long process, and it may be quite a while before we’re ready to approach this issue with larger or more active communities. We fully expect that some cases will result in deciding that two wikis on the same topic can co-exist. As we stated when we first announced the two companies were coming together, we have no plans to force any communities to do anything. It’s important to remind everyone that we’re committed to making this a thoughtful process where each resolution is reached with the input and consent of the affected communities. To do that, there are hundreds if not thousands of cases that need to be collected and studied. Part of that is looking at the big question of whether communities that cover the same subject should come together as one unified wiki. The goal of this project is pretty simple: We want to encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing, cooperation, and collaboration between Fandom users and Gamepedia users. To start with, we want to introduce you to something we’re calling Project Crossover. Today we’re excited to finally begin sharing some information about the progress we’ve been making and some of what you can expect to see happen in the coming weeks. Since then a lot of you have asked what coming together means for the future of Fandom, what our plans are, and a lot of other great questions that we weren’t able to answer yet. It’s been awhile since we announced that Fandom and Curse Media have joined forces, and we owe you some updates about what we’ve been up to in the last few months.

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