Board Thread:SmashWiki Business/@comment-8-20130820204412/@comment-8-20130823010224

Mr. Glidder: As I said, I've seen revivals happen on other wikis after forks. You choose where to edit, and others can do the same. Given the space to do so, without maliciousness from past members of this wiki, each of the sites will grow or not on its own merits. I'm happy to see how that works out, are you?

Toomai: I gave two possible motivations, it's good to hear that yours are the honorable ones. Thank you for that.

You are welcome to contact us to discuss the domain name. My guess is that we won't be interested in selling it, but that isn't my decision.

However, whether we are or not, I would not agree to you denouncing vandalism and disruption as a condition of a domain transfer. That feels way too much like saying "I'll say this is wrong and has to stop, but only if you do what I want you to".

Mr. Anon: I acknowledge your comments on Fanon, I see that as a discussion for the future (although hopefully the near future).

I think you are exactly right about this being about the concept of forking, and of who should control the old version of the content after a fork/move/migration/schism/whatever. And that's something that I don't think we can fix here. Looking back at old conversations, we have been over this same ground before. Those that left feel that the community active at the time the new site was created are the proper "inheritors" of the site (if that's a fair word) and should be able to close the old site behind them when they choose to move elsewhere. I (and others at Wikia) believe that some or all of a community moves; the wiki remains. And that the wiki belongs to, and should be controlled by, the future community of this wiki

These are very strong differences in philosophy and it's not easy to see a way they can be reconciled. I want to respect your point of view (which is why I'm talking to you here) but also need you to respect this wiki's right to move forward.