Fandom vs Telepedia

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.

Telepedia is a web service for creating and hosting public, community-run wikis about games, television, movies, anime and manga, books and comics, music, and other permitted subjects. Users can start a wiki through a creation wizard without waiting for approval, or ask Telepedia to migrate an existing wiki. Hosted sites use the free, open-source MediaWiki software. Administrators can use ConfigCentre to edit settings, namespaces, extensions, user groups, and permissions. Listed extensions include VisualEditor, MobileFrontend, YouTube, and interactive maps, with additional requests evaluated by Telepedia. The platform also supports in-house, Wikimedia-maintained, and community-supported extensions and skins, while excluding options such as Graph, Widgets, SemanticMediaWiki, SocialProfile, and chat or email extensions. Wikis are searchable and public, and Telepedia may place advertisements that owners cannot remove or modify. Support is available through a Support desk. If a wiki leaves, Telepedia offers XML dumps but not image dumps.