Forum:CT:Partnership with Darthipedia -- updates

A while back, the Darthipedia community chose to leave Wikia and set up shop on a wiki farm known as ShoutWiki. Recently, we have moved again, to our own servers with our own domain name at darthipedia.com, with the intention of reasserting ourselves as a Star Wars-based humor wiki, cutting out the less relevant popular culture references and focusing on our original mission&mdash;to take as much piss as possible out of anything and everything in that galaxy far, far away. Speaking as an administrator of that website, I can tell you that we're still the same community which the Star Wars Fanon Wiki voted to partner up with about this time last year.

Last night, one of our contributors wished to update this wiki's external links to various Darthipedia parodies of Star Wars Fanon articles to reflect our move to this new domain. This was met with some resistance, and that resistance was reverted by myself. The user who reverted the initial edits believed that the change needed to be re-approved via a consensus discussion in the forums. Feeling that such a discussion was unwarranted due to the fact that this update only reflected a community's location rather than the community itself, I undid that revert. Unfortunately, this caused a bit of a stir on a trio of user talk pages which also involved myself. The exchange ended when it was decided that we would wait for Brandon Rhea to appear and "solve" this "crisis" by making the ultimate choice for us.

Some time before departing the IRC channel for the evening, Brandon said the following:

"I helped carry the wiki very far, but the cost was that the running assumption was 'Brandon will do it' or 'Just ask Brandon and we'll do what he says.' So my decreased presence on the wiki has a lot to do with throwing the baby bird out of the nest and seeing if it flies The mother bird is still up there, and she'll still catch the baby bird if it's about to splatter onto the ground, but only when it's really necessary."

- Brandon Rhea

Over a private message, he and I discussed the issue in a civilized manner. I felt that such an update was a given and didn't need any drawn-out proposals or CT threads. Brandon felt that such things should be discussed because he felt that a community's location is just as important as its makeup and focus. We soon came to an agreement: in this case, a consensus track thread is warranted. I volunteered to draft this thread because I honestly feel that we need to open ourselves up a bit, to be more willing to talk things out on a public forum so that disagreements can be resolved civilly and in a timely manner. Thus, we as Fanoneers can get to know each other better and possibly avoid some future unpleasantness.

Meat and potatoes
Well, now that the boring, mushy stuff is out of the way, let's get down to brass tacks. The proposal on the table is thus: should we a). dissolve the current partnership with the Darthipedia located on Wikia and b). create a new partnership with the Darthipedia located on its brand-new server. These are mutual, but not exclusive, proposals; one is not dependent on the other passing or failing. Therefore, feel free to address each proposal separately.

This CT will last until midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, May 14th, but will be extended by one week if warranted. 08:40, May 7, 2011 (UTC)

Support (1)

 * 1) As the proposer. 08:40, May 7, 2011 (UTC)

Support (1)

 * 1) As the proposer. 08:40, May 7, 2011 (UTC)