r/Games: GTA Wiki Opens Formal Move-Off-Fandom Discussion Around Independent gta.wiki

What happened

A widely shared r/Games post pointed readers to GTA Wiki: Moving from Fandom, a page that lays out why editors want to move away from Fandom. The page says the discussion is still developing, but it also says the team is looking to move as soon as possible and is exploring the change with Weird Gloop, an independent organization that helps community wikis leave Fandom.

The complaints are operational, not cosmetic. Editors say Fandom's aggressive ads are especially bad for logged-out mobile readers, who account for more than 60% of their audience. They also point to auto-inserted videos, pop-up ads, tighter content rules, and restrictive customization policies that limit how the wiki can present Grand Theft Auto material and community identity.

Why the move matters

For GTA Wiki, timing is part of the story. Editors repeatedly connect the push to the expected Grand Theft Auto VI information cycle later in 2026, arguing that traffic will spike and documentation needs to stay readable, searchable, and under community control. The migration page says a fork to gta.wiki would copy the current content to an independently run MediaWiki install while leaving the Fandom version online.

That does not mean every detail is settled. The page explicitly says the discussion does not define the final outcome, and the editor vote is still part of the process. But the public support list visible on March 16, 2026 is already heavily tilted toward moving, which makes this one of the clearest recent examples of a major game knowledge base trying to reduce platform dependence before a major release window.

What to watch

If the shift goes through, the practical questions are whether editors migrate cleanly, whether search traffic follows the independent domain, and how gta.wiki handles the Grand Theft Auto VI rush without Fandom's distribution machinery. Even if the old wiki remains online, the real center of gravity could move quickly if the editing team and readers adopt the new site together.

Source claims here come from the migration discussion page linked in the Reddit post. The live domain and the structure of the move suggest the breakaway is already operational in some form; that point is an inference from the source structure, while the final governance outcome is still presented by the source page as ongoing.