Forum:Affinity with Tesfanon

Elder Scrolls Fanon's original request for a partnership was rejected about half a year ago. I now admit that such a request was foolish in the early stages in Tesfanon's reconstruction. However, Tesfanon changed much since then. Since my appointment as an administrator, I've witnessed and partaken in the wiki's growth from about 11 articles to over 500 articles. In that time, innovative features such as Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, and Semantic Drilldown. For the rest of the month and next month, I'm planning to restructure templates and articles into something more fitting for the Semantic Web.

But that's enough of the memoir portion of this proposal. You're probably thinking about whether such a partnership would work, if it would it would be profitable, or if Tesfanon is at all related to Star Wars Fanon. I assure you that the answers to all these questions are "yes"; now let me explain:

Topic vs. Purpose
Do Star Wars Fanon and Tesfanon cover the same ground? Topic-wise, sort of. They're both fan-fiction wikis that cover fantasy wiki, but that's where that relationship ends. However, despite that, both wikis share the same purpose. The common goal of Tesfanon and Star Wars Fanon is to create the most brilliantly-crafted articles on subjects that we created. All of us want to create high-quality articles. That's is why the massive clean-up was proposed on Star Wars Fanon, and that's why structured data is being introduced into Tesfanon.

The past has shown us that forming a relationship based on similar topics rather than similar purposes fail, especially on Star Wars Fanon. A partnership with Wookieepedia has never been taken seriously here due to a conflicting set of interests. Our partnership with Darthipedia failed due to conflicting purposes. That's is why Star Wars Fanon didn't appreciate Darthipedian antics in the IRC. The primary goal of Darthipedia was to make readers laugh, not to create impressive fan works. Our partnership with Halo Fanon didn't work becuase quality isn't as important to them as it is to us. However, the purpose of Tesfanon is compatible with Star Wars Fanon; they're trying to construct quality articles showcasing our best fanon characters, locations, etc.

Costs and benefits
A partnership with Tesfanon wouldn't cost Star Wars Fanon anything more than a few edits to MediaWiki:Sidebar and Template:Partners. However, there are a few benefits, and they work both ways. Elder Scrolls Fanon is home to over 25 contributors with about 10 active editors. With a partnership, I'll be sure to spread word of Star Wars Fanon to others. Our community much more active than before.

This vote will end on Friday, May 1st, 2009.

Support (+1)

 * 1) As proposer. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)