Fandom was formerly known as Wikia, the commercial platform launched by Jimmy Wales. This wiki (along with many others) was launched long before the Fandom name.

yeah i don't know why they switched everything from wikia to fandom i think it was a bad call.

Wikia still exists... for example https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki is a fun one to lose an afternoon to.

And you thought Graham's number was big...

> Graham's number is commonly celebrated as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof, although much larger numbers have since claimed this title (such as TREE(3) and SCG(13)). The smallest Bowersism exceeding Graham's number is Corporal, and the smallest Saibianism exceeding Graham's number is Graatagold.

Wikia.org was created to house wikis that the maintainers did not wish to have their purpose tainted by the more corporate side(Fandom) of the company. So wikia.org handles wikis that are not about entertainment and more educational.

Here’s another couple pretty random Fandom wikis that I came across just recently. Linking the specific pages I landed on them at.

https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins

A fandom wiki about “all species” and it has just short of 1k articles about everything from these two guys to fictional species such as Alien.

https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave

This one is specifically about the music label Monstercat. It has about 4k pages.

There are many "elevator spotters" on YouTube. I can watch elevator videos for hours.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY

It's a very interesting community:

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8

I love this aspect of HN. I never would’ve known there was a community around a shared interest in elevators, yet this topic has hit the top of HN and a bunch of members of that community have all gathered here.

I think the surprising part (to me at least) isn't there are communities for elevator lovers, but there is a wiki about it on Fandom.

I remember seeing an elevator once that lit up both the up and down arrows when arriving if it didn't have a set destination yet. I called it Schroedinger's elevator -- neither going up or down until observed to move.

Were you alive or dead when you noticed this?

I was on vacation. So more alive than typical, but dead to those who usually see me around.

Fantastic.

> watch for hours

The call time on the incline elevator… wow you weren’t kidding.

Also, at 5m40s is that a domestic clock being used for station timekeeping? Such a shame given the rest of the station design and the amount of time and money that went into it all. Details, people. Details :)

Seems as good a place as any to OT, but does anyone know of a vacuum tube wiki?

I may have acquired some Otis elevator power(?) tubes, but have no idea where to go for part schematics or identification. I'd love to build them into a project, but am not sure where to start.

Going even more OT, I watched a mesmerizing and beautiful youtube video about making nixie tubes.

I love craftsman videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA

Are you aware of the vim fandom?

It seems to be one of the more complete vim wikis and it's probably the most annoying wiki for a piece of open source software ever. I often go without using whatever information is on there just to avoid listening to my fans (heh) spin up.

Use lynx/links for that wiki.

I was impressed and disappointed at the same time. I wanted to find a page explaining the safeties and failure modes of elevators but I didn't find anything.

Here's a simple explanation of elevator overspeed safeties.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/UgEL6aeGUrQ

My experience at science fiction fandom conventions is that a large proportion of everyone's time is spent in elevators.