On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
Users don't always appreciate being documented on another website, because it takes control away from them and the site with which [they] have participated:
We looked around for ways to increase our visibility in the fan community, to save us from doing a lot of tedious work by hand, etc. We also later talked to the people at AboutUs on how they handle articles like that. We consulted with folks from wikiFur. Heck, we even talked to the people EncyclopediaDramatica. We looked at how Wikipedia handled these issues.
... As for surviving the move to WMF, if Fan History would need that much content culled in order to be a WMF project, then we would probably decline because we believe that such content is important to our mission. That's life. Not everything works out like you want it. We'd love to explore this further because we believe it could help both projects but if there are no goes, then there are no goes.
I may not have time to respond to your comments in detail, but I think it is important to say that I appreciate the way that you are approaching this.
Critical analysis of the potential "import" of this project is much easier if the project has a well defined mission, and the project leaders are only interested in the migration if it is a good fit within the WMF mission.
-- John Vandenberg