Thread:IBHalliwell/@comment-195370-20170814001922/@comment-195370-20170814163314

They are the original creators of ffxiclopedia, who cloned the site in 2010 for their site Gamerescape and sold ffxiclopedia to Wikia.

Since then, naturally they haven't edited here and made the 2010 data into a very different site at Gamerescape. However, they lost all of that data earlier this year and so have decided to use ffxiclopedia's data to start afresh, though this time from 2017.

Their intention is to reformat the appearance/layout and then have a new team continue editing from where we left off in June. As far as I know they don't intend to clone us again, unless of course they lose all of their data again.

I just wanted our recent prevalent editors to know that this site now appears elsewhere on the internet, in a form they can't control and not to be surprised by that.

I argued that they should rollback the changes to 2010 and start from there again, but they have told me they have no intention of doing that. The best we can do is improve this site functionally and aesthetically to ensure that FFXI players choose us over them! :)