The OTW probably feels that they can do their thing, and let her do hers. Most of fandom has never heard of her wiki, so they're not feeling any bad feelings. She's the one that's feeling threatened (and to be honest, the site has been open since 2005, and there's less than 8000 articles, I don't think the OTW is going to have any problems reaching that number in far less time), so as mean as it sounds, she needs the OTW more than they need her. If she feels her site is threatened by what the OTW is doing, she has two options, do what she thinks is best for fandom (whether it means joining or staying where she is); do whatever she thinks will put her hard work, and the work of other who have contributed to it’s best use. Or she can sit on the fence and talk about how they’re not treating her properly, not giving her efforts the respect the deserve.
But like I said, setting up the basics for a wiki is easy, the code is open source after all, the real effort is getting information put into the wiki, and the OTW already has enough support all over to make that part easy too. The don’t really need to the existing wiki to move forward, and I really can’t see them extending that courtesy to the wiki owner when they haven’t done so to any of the other groups that they are making an alternative for just because in this case, there’s only one other main alternative (there are a ton of fandom specific wiki’s out there already).
I think they would've benefitted from talking to archivists and other fannish people of influence from more varied backgrounds earlier. Umm, Naomi is an archivist. She's the one who created the Automated Archive software that a lot of archives are based off of, and has been running archive for almost 14 years. Didn't I also hear that the creator of Skyhawke is volunteering with them? And reading the bios of the board, one of them also runs a huge Buffy archive. They seem to have a lot of experience to me....
Re: OTW Part 2
But like I said, setting up the basics for a wiki is easy, the code is open source after all, the real effort is getting information put into the wiki, and the OTW already has enough support all over to make that part easy too. The don’t really need to the existing wiki to move forward, and I really can’t see them extending that courtesy to the wiki owner when they haven’t done so to any of the other groups that they are making an alternative for just because in this case, there’s only one other main alternative (there are a ton of fandom specific wiki’s out there already).
I think they would've benefitted from talking to archivists and other fannish people of influence from more varied backgrounds earlier.
Umm, Naomi is an archivist. She's the one who created the Automated Archive software that a lot of archives are based off of, and has been running archive for almost 14 years. Didn't I also hear that the creator of Skyhawke is volunteering with them? And reading the bios of the board, one of them also runs a huge Buffy archive. They seem to have a lot of experience to me....