Board Thread:Merger/@comment-188432-20140624145955

Hiya :)

Were you a user of a site called football.wikia.com that looked quite different to this one? Are you confused why you've ended up here, instead?

'''Don't adjust your internet browser! Everything's going to be okay.'''

What's happening is that the two major English language football communities are merging, thanks to an agreement with Dean27, Re coded NL and 2Actimv — leaders of the two wikis.

It's a big job that's going to take some time. Because we want to do it in a way that preserves as much of your contribution histories as possible, we're actually getting Wikia's engineering gurus in on the act.

But because this wiki had much more World Cup related information — and the World Cup is what most people associate with football at the moment — we've gone ahead and changed the URLs before the merger takes place. That way, more people will see Wikia's World Cup-related material while the World Cup is actually happening!

Again, if you were a big contributor to the old football.wikia.com — which will survive for a while as oldfootball.wikia.com — don't worry! Your contributions will be brought over here, and you should retain the vast majority of your edit counts. 