On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Jon Davis <w...@konsoletek.com> wrote: > I don't think that the WMF "acquiring" FanHistory would make them a > competitor with Wikia, after all, Meta already has a propsosal for a > "Wikitainment" ( http://wmf4.me/EFf2D ) which goes to show that the WMF > community wants something like this. Why not merge that proposal and FH > into one. It would give those wanting their entertainment fix (that isn't > "allowed" on Wikipedia) a headstart of 800k articles, and a vibrant > community.
I am not seeing 800k articles that would survive in a WMF project. I would like to see examples of well curated content in order to assess it's value. See for example http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Venusian This page is documentation of a user on another website. For some reason, the story that Venusian published on fanfiction.net doesnt exist any longer: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4176851/ Users don't always appreciate being documented on another website, because it takes control away from them and the site with which that have participated: http://www.fanhistory.com/w/index.php?title=XXLatin-LionessXx&diff=1553570&oldid=620971 As for a vibrant community, I am seeing mostly pages created by bots. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
