User:TreeIsLife/Crossover

Crossover is a project, that will bring Gamepedia and Fandom Minecraft Wikis together to just one wiki.

Origins
Before Fandom bought Gamepedia, Gamepedia Minecraft Wiki was one of the most popular wiki and with most pages on wiki. Minecraft was the icon wiki for Gamepedia Platform, and its popularity is really big and still growing. It was supported by Mojang, community and Gamepedia alot.

On other hand, Fandom Minecraft Wiki was really small competition to the Minecraft Wiki on Gamepedia. Fandom Minecraft Wiki was just a community made wiki, and not popular.

After merge, Fandom and Gamepedia came together, but differences were really big. After Project Crossover annouced, the bigger discuss began. On December 18, 2019, Crossover server between 2 wikis was finally made, and discussion finally come.

After domain annoucement, the communication finally started to be really active. The most active discussion was on November 8, 2020, with finally start of discussing merger, in which, there was discussed some general points of Merger.

Goal
One thing to remember however, we are here for a common goal, we all want to create the best wiki for the Minecraft community. There is a Crossover server, which has been set up independently from wikis own existing Discord server to establish neutral ground for our future talks. Your cooperation in preserving that neutrality and respect towards other contributors is very appreciated.

Hopefully together we will be able to forget our differences and make something even greater than what we already have. If this doesn't happen, at the very least, at the end of this experiment we will know each other better.

Steps
Project Crossover should go in 2 steps


 * 1) Unification of Group Rights, Rules, Style Guide, etc.
 * 2) Merger of wikis itself

Step 1 will be unification of Group Rights (Autopatrol, Discussions Moderators,...), rules, style guide and other texts, for smooth Step 2

Step 2 will be actual wiki content and editors unification (merger).

All content will probably be merged into Gamepedia Wiki.

User groups
Based on discussions, Gamepedia user right groups system will stay, and Fandoms will not. There is a chance rollbacker will be inserted to new wiki, but it is not 100%. If discussions will be enabled on wiki, there will be new Discussion Moderator group, moderating discussions.

Style Guide
Gamepedia wikis style guide will be probably kept, and not changed. Fandom one will not be ported.

Rules
It is unknown, if rules will be too long, or too short, but discussion is getting in a way, that entire rules will be rewrited. It will combine Gamepedia and Fandom rules.

Article content
Probably just tutorials will be merged from Fandom one.

Wiki styles changes
There are no idications for changing style of wiki.

Admin policy
After merge, there may be time, when no more users will be promoted to admin group.

Content
New Wiki will still be extensive documentation for entire Minecraft with some new guides, rules, and new editors, which will make new wiki even better.

Minecraft Wiki Network Crossover
Our plan is of course to have best wiki, as we can. With more mergings between more wikis, we can achieve that. If we're talking about this, we're saying about Minecraft Wiki network Crossover.

There will be 3 big wikis, and many smaller.

Minecraft Wiki
The general hub for all information for Minecraft, except community made one and mods

Feet The Beast Wiki
The wiki for all Minecraft mods, which exist.

Minecraft Community Wiki
A hub for all Minecraft information, made by community (except mods). This can be buildings, maps, servers,