Indie Wiki Buddy is a browser extension that automatically notifies and redirects you from wikis on large, corporate-run wiki farms to independent wikis.
- Learn more at getindie.wiki.
- Download for Firefox
- Download for Chrome
Large, corporate-run wiki farms have enabled hundreds of great wikis and communities. Unfortunately, these wiki farms can easily overshadow quality independent wikis, especially in search engine results. Independent wikis often have the benefit of greater self-determination and fewer ads, but are easily missed by users who aren't aware of their existence.
When visiting a wiki on a large corporate wiki farm such as Fandom, Indie Wiki Buddy will notify and/or automatically redirect you if a quality, independent alternative is available. You can customize your experience per-wiki.
In addition, search results in Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Ecosia, Kagi, Qwant, Startpage, Yahoo!, and Yandex can also be filtered, replacing non-independent wikis with text inviting you to visit the independent counterpart.
Indie Wiki Buddy also supports BreezeWiki, a service that renders Fandom wikis without ads or bloat. This helps give you a more enjoyable reading experience on Fandom when an independent wiki isn't available.
We're always expanding with new wiki redirects! Please review the criteria for inclusion below.
Our wiki redirect data is maintained in the separate indie-wiki-buddy-data repository.
Suggestions can be made via our Google Form. However, GitHub contributors are encouraged to directly open an issue or open a pull request.
- The wiki should be editable by the public (that's what makes a wiki a wiki!)
- The destination wiki should be independent, meaning that decision-making and control of the wiki largely rests with the wiki's staff and volunteer editing community.
- Factors include editorial independence, the editorbase's ability to request changes from their host, and any history of the host exerting decisions contrary to a wiki community's wishes.
- Large hosts such as Miraheze and Wiki.gg may be considered less independent, but are included as they are community-friendly hosts, provide decent levels of control, and are popular destinations for forking wikis.
- The destination wiki should be of decent quality, ideally matching (or exceeding) the quality and size of the origin wiki. While we want to support all independent wikis, we also want extension users to be directed to wikis where they can find what they are looking for.
- When there are multiple independent wikis on the same subject, we will usually point to the wiki that is most complete and prominent in the community.
This extension can be translated on Hosted Weblate (link to the translation project). If you're interested in helping translate, please register for an account at hosted.weblate.org, and you should be able to dive right in and start translating!
