AnvilWiki vs Fandom
AnvilWiki
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| Figure | AnvilWiki | Fandom |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Wiki Software | 8.3 (#3) | 8.0 (#5) |
| Audience | The maker describes it as suited to people building side-project game content sites, including beginners and creators who want AI-assisted workflows. | Fandom says it serves 350 million people worldwide and its communities cover fandoms in 80 languages across 200 countries. |
| Security | The documentation advises enabling two-factor authentication on the GitHub account used for the site. | Fandom says it takes steps to handle information securely but cannot warrant that information provided to it will be secure. |
| Support | The maker invites users to scan a WeChat QR code to contact the maintainer and join a discussion group. | Fandom directs users to submit support tickets, which are routed to the appropriate team, including Customer Support, Community Managers, Trust & Safety, or Community Operations. |
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In their own words
AnvilWiki
AnvilWiki is a free, open-source template for building game wikis and SEO-focused content sites. It uses Astro to generate static pages and Cloudflare Pages for hosting. Bundled agent skills support drafting MDX pages through ZCode, Claude Code, or Codex, with schema and lint checks. SEO features include a sitemap with lastmod, JSON-LD, hreflang, Quick Answer blocks, and llms.txt. Structured game-code data displays active codes in copyable blocks and expired codes in a table; a weekly audit workflow flags stale pages. Other components include boss data cards, highlighted tables of contents, image galleries, and Giscus comments, which are off by default. AdSense slots, sponsor cards, and affiliate CTAs are also included but disabled by default and controlled by environment settings. Internationalization puts English at the root and includes fallback behavior for missing content. The maker says Cloudflare Pages provides free unlimited bandwidth, a global CDN, and SSL, and identifies a domain as the only required expense. The MIT template is listed at free.
Fandom
Fandom is a free platform for creating and exploring public fan wikis about games, entertainment, and culture. Communities document stories, characters, lore, and other topics, and any logged-in user with a confirmed email can create a wiki through the creation form. Hosting costs nothing plan and has no limit to wiki size, with role permissions, revision history, media uploads, and API access. UCP wikis support mobile editing through a visual editor or source mode. Discussions, article comments, message walls, and blogs provide community features that administrators can switch in some cases. Extensions including DPL, Loops, Variables, Gadgets, and Arrays are available on request; SMW cannot be enabled because of performance concerns. UCP lacks live chat and wiki-style polls, although Discussions includes polls. Wikis remain publicly viewable. Fandom says its communities span 80 languages across 200 countries and serve 350 million people worldwide.