What this project ships
- Communities on top of the network. The clean, centralized franchise data (the network layer that ships first) becomes the annotation source and the factual spine for a separate layer of franchise communities — a modernized wiki-farm where contributors write the prose, lore, and discussion the canonical pages link out to.
- Authored in the live editor. Communities are written in the inline block editor (Entry 037) — edit-in-place, not wikitext, with structured Facts and free prose side by side, and a plugin/theme marketplace over a safe substrate.
- Their own economics. Each community carries its own ads into its own treasury (Entry 036). The network draws on those treasuries only as a backstop; a revolving slush fund fronts the one-time cost of onboarding a new community as a repayable advance.
Why this is its own project, later
The two-layer split (Entry 036) is deliberate: the network layer — the canonical data and pages — must stand up and self-fund first. The community layer is where OLN becomes a home for fandoms rather than just a reference, but it depends on the clean data, the live editor, and the economic machinery all being in place. So it is named here as a committed direction and sequenced after the pre-launch network work, not built alongside it.