Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-4189499-20140123125957

Speaking of which, can we please get back to discussing the network set-up itself? I apologise for any offence I made earlier. I sometimes don't realise when it's best to keep my mouth shut. Now, as I said before:

Imamadmad wrote: Ok, so CzechOut wants to discuss the practicalities of the network. That's great, and exactly what this thread is for! So, what criteria must a wiki fulfil to be part of this alliance? These are some potential criteria I'm just thinking up off the top of my head.
 * Must have at least 1,000 pages: This will screen out many of the newer, smaller wikis who will never become big because of the other existing wikis, and we all already meet that criteria.
 * Must have had admin activity in the past 3 months or an active adoption request: That would ensure that the wiki is actually active and being cleaned of vandalism etc. so we aren't connecting to a wiki filled with vandalistic nonsense.
 * Erm, can't think of anything else right now, but feel free to discuss these. These two alone exclude the copy-cat wikis that CzechOut has already linked to.

Again as CzechOut rightly pointed out, what are we going to do about copy-cat wikis? If a copy-cat wiki manages to become successful enough to join the network as per the above criteria, should they be included as well as the original wiki (because different wikis can sometimes cover the same things in different ways, or from different perspectives, like the way TDC and DWC handle merchandise), or should there be some sort of examination of the wikis to decide which one is "better" and should be part of the alliance instead? Or maybe we will have to take these on a case-by-case basis, since I doubt there would be many Doctor Who wikis out there, especially copy-cat ones, who manage to reach 1000 pages.

DWA is lucky in this perspective because it's made on a depreciated platform (knew there would be some benefit!) and so can't get any copy-cats, and TDC's longevity and prominence means that it will probably win just about every challenge from a copy-cat wiki if we decide to do replacements instead of include both. In fact, the main wiki in danger from copy-cat wikis if the above criteria are accepted is Fanon. If another Doctor Who fan fiction wiki pops up which grows to an acceptable extent determined by the above criteria and wants to join the network, would we replace or include both? (A third option is that you merge your wikis, but I doubt you'd want to do that.) If the other wiki is more compatible with Wikia's licencing and ToU, and we decide to replace, we would have to accept the other one. All wikis before deciding to join the network should be aware that they can be kicked out if another wiki of the exact same content becomes stronger than them if we decide to replace, and also if they become inactive. So third point of discussion: include as well as or replace wikis of the same content if superseded by another wiki.