Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26569706-20190616224922

I am the founder of a wiki that I created back in 2015. Not much later, another user created a wiki on the same topic as my wiki, and I didn't come to know of the wiki until a while later.

Over the years, the founder of the other wiki and I have become friends, and we get along well, even though we are founders of "competing" wikis.

A few months ago, I brought up the idea of merging his wiki with mine, since it would allow everyone to benefit. We wouldn't be competing for users and we would be able to unite and move forward together. He refused the idea mainly because of one reason: he had experienced a merge before that did not end well. In his previous merge, he and the other founder got into disagreements that led to problems that took months to resolve.

He didn't disagree with the fact that everyone would benefit, so I think the main reason he refused was because he was scared to try another merge because of what had occured in his past.

Recently, I've gotten feelings that a "war" between our wikis may break out. Both wikis are silently trying to outrun the other, and I think that it's going to result in an unpleasant outcome, which I don't want to happen.

I would like your advice on how to convince the founder of the other wiki (a second time) to merge the wikis. I know I can't force him, but merging would definitely positively impact users on both wikis.

Thank you for your time.

-JK55556 