Decision
Memory Alpha (the Star Trek canonical wiki) is the launch Franchise for OLN/LoreDoor — a coordinated migration from Fandom led by Brandon, who has the relationships with Memory Alpha admins to make a friendly transition possible. OLN does not support wikitext. Migration happens via a structured-extraction pipeline that converts Memory Alpha's wiki pages into Fact graph entities and OLN-native page templates.
Wikitext source is preserved in archive form for full attribution, but live content is rendered from clean structured data using OLN's Fact-graph-backed page templates and the LoreLines commentary surface (see Entry 010).
Reasoning
Wikitext is a 2003 problem we don't have to solve. Brandon's LoreDoor vision document is right that wikitext was Fandom's largest unforced UX error. Bringing it into OLN would import the problem we're explicitly solving. AI extraction has gotten good enough that converting wikitext to structured data is now tractable.
Memory Alpha is strategically perfect as launch Franchise. The community has both the cultural sophistication (Trek fans skew older, more deliberate, more invested in canonical accuracy) and the historical grievance with Fandom (advertising saturation, lack of contributor recognition) to migrate as a coordinated act. Brandon has the relationships to make it friendly rather than contested.
The migration is itself a case study. "How OLN handles a community migrating from Fandom" will be a defining narrative for the platform. Worth doing it visibly and well — and worth designing the migration architecture to be reusable for future Franchises that follow.
LCARS philosophy aligns. Brandon's LoreDoor vision document anchors Memory Alpha specifically through the LCARS / Voice of the Enterprise philosophy — knowledge without ego, context over content, presence over performance. These are operating principles, not just product values, and they fit OLN's constitutional posture deeply.
Open questions
- Pipeline architecture (G-030). How structured extraction works in practice: AI-assisted parsing with human review? Fully automated with confidence scoring? Migration order (entities first, then narrative pages)? Reusability for future Franchises.
- IP/legal posture for the migration itself. What's the legal status of Memory Alpha content under Fandom's CC-BY-SA licensing? Migration likely permitted under CC-BY-SA terms with attribution preserved, but needs explicit counsel review (see G-002).
- Coordinated vs. organic migration. Are admins and contributors moved over together as a coordinated act, or does OLN host the new instance and contributors migrate at their pace?
- Authoring tools needed at launch. What does the contributor experience look like the day after migration? See G-015 (editor interface).