On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Jon Davis wiki@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=15535...
As for a vibrant community, I am seeing mostly pages created by bots.
-- John Vandenberg