All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part V

[Labster]

"Hi Geth N 7 - I'll just change the CC license for this page to match yours. Good enough for you?

Yeah, TVT is allowed to use our stuff if they use the same license.  If they broke the agreement by posting under another license, then TVT's 3.0 license was terminated, but since we dual license under 4.0, he can take remedial action under that one.  Therefore, he can go ahead and use our content without permission with the correct copyright (and a backlink for attribution clause).

Just started getting 502s across Miraheze...

Meet the new wiki farm, same as the old wiki farm...
Also I'm taking steps to move the wiki to http://www.allthetropes.org/  You know, so we don't lose all of our SEO in the future.  Hopefully Orain can throw up some redirects in the end.

rrrgghh...  That worries me.  Looking at Drew's credentials, I can tell
that this guy is a suit - full stop.  I don't think that means good
things for TVT, because this guy's end goal is to monetize shit.  And
somehow this rubs me wrong even worse than Fast Eddie's Stalinism.

Yeah, monetization is definitely a goal, but so is improving the site.  His credentials don't tell the whole story -- in person he told me that he hated patent lawyering, so he joined his friend's startup to get away from all of that.  If I were running it, I'd leave the wiki pretty much alone, and use it to funnel people into the startup, Share TV.  And maybe use Share TV's ad network to supplement TVT's income.  But as always money forces content tradeoffs -- if you're not paying, then you're the product.  This is why we chose the nonprofit model.

Basically, we'd have three branches that could share content, you can stick with the one you prefer.

Of course, this is not a done deal. Orain has to prove to me they can
restore us to our antebellum condition first or as close as possible. If
they can't, this is off the table.

Yeah, to me, Orain is off the table.  It's not the crisis, it's the crisis response.  Apparently Dusti isn't around because he's working 12 hour days.  (First of all that will probably be seen as a human rights abuse a century from now.)  But the key person cannot be unavailable for so long.  The other key person, kudu, has had only sparse availability.  And, this has happened before, and John Lewis kept things together without the key people.  This time John wasn't here because of the falling out, and now no one is cleaning up the fall out.
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