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

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Laura Hale <laura at 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