Fandom (wiki farm, MediaWiki)
- Free allowance
- 10 MB per file, no file-count cap: 'The maximum size of uploads is 10 MB.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10 MB per file
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 10 MB per file, no file-count cap: 'The maximum size of uploads is 10 MB. The maximum image resolution is 12.5 megapixels.' and 'There is no limit to the number of files you can upload' (with the caveat 'they shouldn't be used just as file stores'). unit MB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: 10 MB (hard, confirmed live via siteinfo maxuploadsize = 10485760). request-rate: MediaWiki edit-rate limits per IP; anon upload needs a CSRF token (probe returned badtoken). Retention: permanent, but Fandom never deletes content even on community request. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Unmetered, Cloudflare-fronted static CDN. But see the read-path trap below. |
| Per-object cap | 10 MB per file (10000000 bytes) |
| Retention | request-rate: MediaWiki edit-rate limits per IP; anon upload needs a CSRF token (probe returned badtoken). Retention: permanent, but Fandom never deletes content even on community request. |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | MediaWiki Action API per wiki (action=upload), Pywikibot/mwclient. No rclone backend. |
| Composes with | 10 MB x unlimited files x unlimited free wikis (wiki creation is self-service). 10 MB is small enough that this only matters as a shard layer. |
| Reliability | Two read-path traps in one host. (1) static.wikia.nocookie.net returns 403 Cf-Mitigated: challenge to any non-browser — a hard read gate. (2) When it does serve, it RE-ENCODES: a request for a .png returned Content-Type: image/webp, 6,326 bytes, sha1 ada19fa5... — NOT the 9,979-byte original whose sha1 ce3dee8b... matches the API. You must append &format=original to get your bytes back. Textbook 'gives you storage but not your bytes'. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Uploading_files | 'The maximum size of uploads is 10 MB ... There is no limit to the number of files you can upload' |
| 2026-10-21 | minecraft.fandom.com/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&sipr | probe: GET -> 200, maxuploadsize = 10485760 |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET static.wikia.nocookie.net/.../Grass_Block.png/revision/latest (direct and via fetch proxy, browser UA) -> 403 with Cf-Mitigated: challenge; via proxy without UA -> 200 but image/webp 6,326 B, sha1 ada19fa5... != API sha1 ce3dee8b... |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: same URL with &format=original -> 200, image/png, 9,979 bytes, sha1 ce3dee8bd03c3a66eedef6e710491cf9f4f11e2b == API sha1. Original IS retrievable, but only on the explicit original path. |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read