[Foundation-l] Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Jon Davis <wiki at 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.

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John Vandenberg