Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Regarding the new management of tvtropes/reply (2)

I can't speak for ATT management, but the impression I got from Vorticity's blog post that ultimately brought me to ATT and other materials was that ATT's mission statement was to produce reference material under a license for free cultural works that promotes awareness of design patterns in storytelling.

The big things distinguishing ATT, in my view, are 1. modern wiki software, 2. relative* lack of beholdenness to advertisers, and 3. the license. TVT is a combination of edits under three separate copyright licenses: owned by contributor and licensed to TVTF under Creative Commons BY-SA (start-June 2012), owned by contributor and licensed to TVTF under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (July 2012-October 2013), and owned by TVTF (November 2013-present). CC BY-NC-SA is not free. It's also incompatible with CC BY-SA, where "incompatible" means that it's impossible to follow both licenses at once when distributing a combined work. Licensing on ATT is simpler: all CC BY-SA all the time.

* The Wikia version has ads. Edits that violate Wikia's community standards may make it harder to (manually) move text between corresponding pages on Orain and Wikia.