Zelda Wiki has an꧑nounced that it is splitting from its owner Fandom in an effort to help "keep the internet free from corporate consolidation."

Zelda Wiki's editors say that the site's mission is "curating an editorially independent, high quality wiki operated by fans." But t🌠hey say that they have "com🌃e to believe that these ideals are incompatible with Fandom." After "many months of preparation," the wiki now exists as . The old is still live, as well.

, though that split involved developer Re-Logic and went down without this level of criticism of Fandom. The years ago, back when the company was still called Wikia, citing "horrendous" advertisements and a push for "clickbait editorials" and intrusive video content.

Intrusive advertisements and non-wiki content are recurring criticisms from users of Fandom s𝓡ites, though that certainly hasn't stopped the company from continuing to buy out independent wiki sites. That latter point, in particular, seems to be a big sticking point for the Zelda editors.

"Following Fandom's recent buyouts and questionable staffing decisions, we feel we have no choice but to do our part to keep the internet free from corporate 🧸consolidation," Zelda Wiki's editors said in a public statement.

"We strongly urge our fellow wiki communities hosted under Fandom to make the same decision, and to help build independent wiki alliances such as and , free from corporate monopolization and control. For those who are currently employed by Fandom, we urge you to unionize while you still can. We can keep the 𝓰internet free from hegemonic control together, but it must start with us."

Some of the other independent wikis counte🐠d among those alliances include well-regarded resources like and꧃ .

The slow trickle of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom info is certainly going to give the wiki fodder for content.