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It looks like someone's been taking advantage of the open editing function on the wiki. Frex, the article for Sandpoint HERE has been deleted and redirected to Sanspont HERE. Gozreh has been changed throughout to Goesrah, and it looks like a bunch of other deities have been renamed. Who's nominally overseeing the wiki?
The wiki moved here quite a while ago. The old one couldn't be deleted so is just stagnating (and apparently slowly decomposing) on the web.
It seems the people in charge of the old wiki ("Golariopedia") are changing all the names that are Paizo IP to similar names. Probably there's some legal reason behind that, it's possible they've lost the right to use the Paizo Community Use License, similar to d20pfsrd.
Edit: they have the following to say about this: "Since all Wikia wikis publish their content under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license and since this license is incompatible with Paizo's Community Use Policy (CUP), Golariopedia will not host content that is normally covered under the CUP. Golariopedia currently contains a great deal of CUP content. When found, this content should be removed or more ideally changed so as to not violate the CUP. The existence of CUP content on this wiki should not be taken as tacit approval to post more CUP material." (http://pathfinder.wikia.com/wiki/PathfinderWiki:No_CUP)
However, I think, simply changing the names by moving a round a few letters does not solve the problem. Not only the names, but also the content of most, if not all, articles on that wiki, are Paizo IP licensed under the CUP. If the licenses are in fact incompatible, I would not be surprised if it had to be shut down completely.
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An army of Brigh's faithful clockworks are at work at present removing content en masse from the defunct Golariopedia. For all future wiki needs, please use PathfinderWiki.
We are working on getting the clockworks to add a template to each page they change, explaining the need with the above that Zaister points out, allowing the change to be more transparent.
Furthermore, the following has just been posted to the wiki as an explanation of what's going on there:
A Note on Wiki's OverhaulIn the last year, it has come to light that the content on this wiki which includes any of what Paizo terms "product identity" in their OGL declarations and allows use of in non-commercial projects under their Community Use Policy (CUP) is in violation of the CUP because it appends the CC-BY-SA license onto the content on this site. As such, in light of this illegal placement of such content into the Creative Commons, the admins of this project have decided that all such content should be removed out of respect for Paizo Publishing, LLC and their copyrights.
Rather than catalogue canon (which is frankly impossible if we can't use the proper names or describe the events and details of the world whose canon we're attempting to chronicle), this site will remain a center for the amassing of real-world information on the Pathfinder Campaign Setting, books in the various Pathfinder product lines, authors, artists, and corporate entities, events, campaigns, and licensors of the Pathfinder brand. This may include details on the Pathfinder Online MMO, the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign, PaizoCon, Dynamite Entertainment, Goblinworks, and countless staff and freelance authors who contribute to the Pathfinder universe. It will not, however, provide encyclopedic details of the world itself, as such would be a violation of the CUP.
It is the belief of the project's administrators that the project can maintain its integrity by keeping intact all "real-world POV" content and treat itself the same way wikis about films do (see Moviepedia). In these projects, the films themselves are not reproduced, but elements of the real world which are fair-use content are included in the project, including biographies of artists, performers, etc., articles on the films themselves, as well as awards and accolades, production and distribution companies, and so forth.
In an effort to implement these changes to the wiki, a number of pages are being removed based on their content and their relevance to the wiki's repurposed scope. If there are any questions regarding these mass deletions or changes to the wiki's remaining content, please contact User:Yoda8myhead or User:Aeakett, both of whom are administrators on the project.
Thank you for your understanding and patience during this time of transition.
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Good call - if you guys tried to make a "Gorehz instead of Gozreh" Wiki, that would backfire because users would keep "fixing it" forcing you to run around and "unfix" it all the time.
And believe me, some Wiki maniacs can be really persistent in trying to get something fixed...
Also, having one thriving PF Wiki and one "rotten stump" was mighty confusing, so a double good call there :)