Forum:AR:Adoption request for Faction Paradox Wiki

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What is your username?:

CzechOut

Please link to the wiki here:

w:c:factionparadox

How many edits have you made on that wiki?

0, but see below

[Update: Edits are now close to 200 and counting as of 04:05, May 18, 2012 (UTC)]

How many days/months have you been editing there?

0, but see below

[Well, I started today, but still see below]

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?

2010 August 30 17:17 Peter Cobcroft. And he hasn't even logged in since 2011 April 8 16:42. And he only has 41 edits.

The other admin, with a whopping 12 edits, is Grandfather Paradox who both logged in and contributed last on 2007 August 14.

Any other information:

It may seem weird for someone who has made no edits on a wiki to be requesting adoption of that wiki. However, there is an unusually close relationship between FP and Doctor Who. As a bureaucrat and long time editor of w:c:tardis, I've probably contributed more about FP to Wikia in general than currently exists at w:c:factionparadox.

To explain briefly, Faction Paradox is a spin-off of Doctor Who. For many years, w:c:tardis has been hosting information related to Faction Paradox. However, it is hard to integrate into our wiki, given the fact that the copyright holder of Faction Paradox created his universe as an explicit reaction against the Doctor Who universe. Therefore, after a few years of debate about the matter, we have taken the decision to divest ourselves of Faction Paradox content. We want to put it onto w:c:factionparadox.

This will have an immediate and dramatic impact upon the size of the FP wiki. The most efficient way to accomplish this is to allow me to bulk migrate our data from tardis, and then use a bot to clean things up.

It would also be beneficial for our admin staff to control FP so that the two sites can have a similar design ethos. This would stop w:c:factionparadox from looking like the "poor cousin that nobody wants to contribute to".

Here are some links to the discussions we've had at w:c:tardis in which we've decided to transfer our FP information to w:c:factionparadox:


 * tardis:forum:How do we best include Faction Paradox on the wiki?
 * tardis:forum:BBV and canon policy (BBV is a production company that released a lot of FP content)

To sum up, the fact that we at w:c:tardis have hosted FP information has stunted the growth of the FP wiki. This plan would energise w:c:factionparadox overnight, and would allow us at w:c:tardis to have cleaner boundaries. I hope you accept it. 20:48: Tue 15 May 2012