On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Laura Hale <la...@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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l