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Regardless of the details of their individual copyright policies, as Taylan points out to me via email, these companies are making money from people who offer their time, energy, and expertise to the wikis for free.

#FREE BALDURS GATE 3 LICENSE#

This is a more restrictive agreement than the CC BY-SA license used by most wikis, including Fandom, which states that contributors retain copyright, although they must also give blanket permission for it to be reused and remixed with attribution so that the wiki can be updated and changed. Fextralife’s wiki license states that contributors “give the site ownership over the content” they produce, although the site also returns rights to contributors to use the portion that they contributed. But the ownership issues involved in these wikis are less immediately obvious. Not to be a hater, but I dislike that.)”Īds and other distractions, like Fextralife’s embedded Twitch streams, are annoyances to users, even if they use ad blockers to avoid the worst of them. (Essentially, if you add something to their wiki, you’re doing unpaid work for their company. “It shoves ads in your face, and claims copyright ownership over anything you write. “In my opinion isn’t a particularly nice wiki,” Taylan wrote. One of these tensions was voiced by Reddit user Taylan, who created and shared a Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki as an alternative to the existing Fextralife site at the beginning of 2022. Although the people building and maintaining the wikis are doing it out of love, the host sites are for-profit companies, creating tension between them. Fan wikis, in particular, can get incredibly granular, with countless hours of unpaid work going into creating and maintaining huge amounts of information on even the smallest details.īut most fan wikis are hosted by third-party companies, such as Fandom or Fextralife, which aren’t always popular among wiki contributors or fans in general. Wikis are some of the most heartening sites on the internet - repositories of knowledge collected, edited, and verified entirely by dedicated volunteers.

Whether they’re searching for weapon stats or class builds, or trying to make their Astarion x Reader fanfic as accurate as possible, they’re probably going to end up on a wiki. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massively detailed game, and players of all kinds are bound to want to look something about it up at some point.

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