On May 31, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Gabe Johnson wrote:
Honestly, for me to support the transwiki of
"cruft" the Wikia are
going to have to be integrated a lot tighter with WP. I have no
problem with spinning it off, but we can't let the plot summaries,
etc. that people value Wikipedia for be lost. On some random internet
thread about Wikipedia, people were complaining that Wikipedia is
becoming just like a dead tree encyclopedia and abandoning the plot
summaries in the name of "contextualizing the work." Which is
prossibly what we want, but you have to have the other stuff _very_
easily accessible. Not as in one external link to the Wikia at the
bottom of the article, as in our links to spun-off articles at the top
of a section dealing with that facet of the topic. ~~~~
I've been trying to accomplish this with [[Template:FreeContentMeta]]
and some of its subboxes, but a rather horrifyingly entrenched bunch
of process wonks seem to be convinced that a decision made by seven
people on the talk page of a MoS guideline trumps all other possible
reasons for action, so it's proving an uphill struggle.
-Phil