On Nov 17, 2006, at 7:07 AM, David Gerard wrote:
This trick has been tried before, e.g. trying to get amazingly trivial Star Trek cruft moved to Memory Alpha. Pretty much none of the actual contributors of such material were happy with the idea and it died. Possibly because it was approached through deletion discussions, which are a proven way to get people to the discussion already upset ...
Memory Alpha is also hard because it's license is incompatible. We can interlink, but we can't transwiki the same way we can with, say, Babylon 5 (Where I'm currently moving stuff over, starting with the easiest for me to rewrite.)
There are a couple of things that will make it easier: Not transplanting articles without a replacement is one. It looks one way to dump an entire article over at another wiki and just reduce the Wikipedia one to a stub. It looks another to replace the Wikipedia one with something that is clearly recognizable as an article.
The biggest complaint I've gotten in practice (It's still very early in the experiment) is that The Babylon Project is a basically inactive wiki with inadequate coverage. Thankfully, that won't be the case for too long, since other than the featured [[Spoo]], B5 articles on Wikipedia are pretty much all in-universe. So after a few weeks of moving articles, they'll be at least a good wiki, if still an inactive one.
-Phil