Thread:CzechOut/@comment-45710159-20201221065322/@comment-188432-20201221182230

Answering your second question first, no, we wouldn't allow an adoption in this case. What needs to happen is a plan for merger. See Help:Merging communities for more info.

The reason for this is that we want both communities to have active, but separate, conversations about their possible joint future. If we were to allow an adoption, then it could very easily be a situation where one person, the adopter, was making the decisions.

The basic deal is that conversations need to be started on both communities, ideally by the most active people on each wiki. Then each wiki's busiest editors (or, if available, admin) should go around to the Message Wall/User talk pages of each person who's edited in the last 6-8 weeks and invite them to these two separate discussions. And the editing groups should, ideallyy, stay on their "home" wikis. In other words, people who primarily edit Wiki A should not participate in the discussions at Wiki B, and vice versa — though if there are people who legitimately edit both frequently, they can participate in either, or both, discussions. The notion is just that each community should make up its own mind. These conversations should ideally not happen in Discussions but in a blog or forum page — something on the "regular" part of the wiki, just in case anyone needs to use wiki text to make a point.

Once an agreement to merge is reached, the merger will typically be from the wiki with the fewer pages to the one with the more. That way, it's a lot less work! (So in fact, the typical direction would likely be from younger —> older wiki, and it has nothing to do with the current presence of Discussions.)

But that's getting way ahead of ourselves. First have the discussions and leave them open at least until mid-January.

Hope your holidays are great!