I love cooperation and believe stronger in the inevitable end of the universe when people suffer from lack of communication. That is why I was saddened by the schism between editors and the creation of two separate wikis doing the same work twice when can be become stronger operating together. It was unlikely (even more true now) that we would manage to restore the past and reach a compromise. I don't think that most of the individuals want or care to relive the emotional stress of dealing with the past conflict in order to coexist once again. For some reason, it still bothers me.
However, while I admired everyting about criticalrole.miraheze.org (e.g. many editors with various skills and bots [which makes space for editing division], clear and expanded wiki policies for newcomers with the feeling that will always be up to date, and etc) and, in a small amount, I now feel that wires of communication went silent on this wiki (not a personal attack against anyone in particular), I had three barriers that have clung me here:
I didn't want to add even more pressure on the three editors-in-chief maintaining the wiki. To witness Micaerys at work who always sneaks an in depth trivia in every article, creats art specifically for wiki, showing his love for the characters and the wiki, and breathes the world of Critical Role. Durandal's Fate who created the large chunk of lore articles for the wiki (races, history, terms, and more) and keeps updating it. Lynn who writes all of the summaries for the main campaigns (as far as I know, not missed an episode for the past three+ years) and the only admin of CR wiki. I feel, it must be a tough role in general, which gets even tougher when you are the only one.
In a small way, every decision was gonna hurt one wiki or the other, so I chose the passive option to stay and make it less difficult for me. Stayed to, at the very least, provide some updates to the "Recent Changes" as a sign of vitality and to contribute to the atmosphere of activity.
This wiki is much more popular and if the both of them have an article at the ready, FANDOM doesn't feel any competition at all. Intially, it made the FANDOM wiki much more real and important to update for critters. But there are two big nopes:
A. Wiki will follow the community. criticalrole.miraheze.org will shine, if it continues to have more editors with less space for burnout, coders to polish templates and create new ones, bots to make wide spead changes, more progressive and far-reaching desisions to simlify the system and prepare it before the pages explode from an exess of data (I don't think I have the weakest computer, but it always has a hard time editing pages for C2 PCs or the Time Line and, in the current state of mind, I have a hard imaging anyone who will have energy to create more efficiency here, there and ever more, while keeping up with live streams).
B. FANDOM is the most ludicrous copyright name — idea of the community creation that entered this world for pure enjoyment monetized by one company. Although CR wiki that is owned by the FANDOM has the minimum amount of monetization required by the company (much less than ARK Survival Evolved Wiki, which has also recently partially migrated from the FANDOM and for some reasons do not have "Discuss" and "Community" pages), why would someone prefer this host to another, especially if there are very few barriers to transition?
Thanks!
Michael