Introducing: A New Critical Role Wiki

Introducing: A new Critical Role Wiki

As you may be aware, I’ve been involved with the Critical Role wiki on Fandom since last summer. This therefore may seem surprising, but: several dedicated former editors of the Fandom wiki, myself included, have made a new, ad-free wiki at https://criticalrole.miraheze.org. It contains much of the same material of the Fandom wiki (as is legal per the CC-BY-SA license, with full attribution), with a number of improvements made over the past month.

You may consider this our vote of no confidence in Fandom as a platform, and in the administration of the Fandom-hosted wiki.

We are doing this because the administrators of the Fandom wiki have repeatedly ignored the wishes of the community, shutting even experienced editors out from nearly all decisions, resisting even minor changes, and ignoring simple requests and basic admin tasks for months on end. They are also knowingly using fan art without artist permission* despite the strong and repeated urging of at least six experienced editors to remove it.

A recent formalization of the path to administrator roles explicitly limits new admins to people the current administration - all of whom were appointed by the wiki founder, with no input from the community - chooses. The leadership position on the wiki is now held by the person who started edit wars, protected pages, and blocked users to support presumptive and ultimately false narratives in favor of a particular ship, and who has shut down or deleted any criticism of these actions as being “bad faith.” The wiki administration has openly condoned plagiarism as a valid means of updating pages, and have consistently refused to take feedback seriously.

We are also dissatisfied with Fandom as a hosting site. In January, Fandom attempted to require an extensive and poorly handled rebranding of the wiki to promote TLOVM on behalf of Amazon (which was, to the credit of both the administrators and the editorship, unanimously resisted). I and others have additionally made repeated complaints about the administration to Fandom, none of which we believe have been taken seriously.

Despite the efforts of a passionate community, I believe the current administration will forever oppose most efforts to change or improve the wiki, and that Fandom is only interested in getting eyes on ads. We intend to provide a better option on an ad-free, open-source platform. If you share any of these frustrations or concerns, I invite you to join us.

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not thank multiple collaborators, including Ellis (not on Tumblr) for their tireless efforts. This would not have been possible without them.

Social media handles for the wiki will be forthcoming over the next few weeks. In the meantime feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

*If you are a fan artist concerned about stolen art: it’s primarily from early in Campaign 1, and can as of this time be found under the category “Images lacking permission”. If you wish to ask that your art be removed from the wiki, I recommend responding to the tweet or similar in which you were asked permission. You can also go to the Fandom wiki discord, to to https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/User:CRAdmin (requires login), or submit a DMCA notice to Fandom (does not require login).

For this rant from Asmodues is amazing. The calling out of Zerxus for his arrogance, and Asmodeus showing what he feels for mortals that their just puppets that tore his siblings from him. That he hates them just so much. Chilling.

I really hope that with the additional spidey content in the MCU they make Peter more of an equal to the other hero’s like he is in the comics.

I don’t hate how they leaned into him being a kid and all, but I much prefer snarky Peter to sir Peter. And with the ending of NWH they have a great opportunity to do it.

Like if in Freshman year I want Matt and Peter to interact as equals, not a repeat of Tony and Peter’s thing.

I swear if ST really had that Robin Will parallel of them staring at their crushes with their partners shot in the same way and doesn’t have them talk next season… I might actually scream.

Any for Beau?

A few assorted Beau headcanons coming right up!

In solidarity with her case during her father’s trial, rival wineries started to sell wines named after her and donating a portion of the funds to help Beau.

I’ve mentioned I think she and Yasha foster and adopt kids, but they also foster pets. They once fostered a three legged cat named Nimble, and the time he met Frumpkin is one of their favorite memories with pets of all time.

On a Cobalt Soul trip to Tal’Dorei, she got a skysail from Zephrah and learned to use it with the express purpose of kissing Yasha in midair at least once.

Beau helps establish law regarding coerced actions that result in casualties, focusing on punishing the person coercing the individual rather than the individual that was forced to take the action. With Caleb’s permission, she names it the “Ermundrud Culpability Protection Act.”

Watching Stranger Things Season 4 for me has just been whenever they mention Vecna thinking to myself: “Vox Machina would beat his fucking ass so bad man”