Now that it's irrefutable that the new WoS is using ZXDB, and that Fogarty is making changes direct to the database to bypass the changes/versioning layer of his CMS, and that the new titles added to ZXDB that briefly appeared on new WoS with their ZXDB minted ids:
There is no valid reason why new WoS can't support the ZXDB-minted id for titles that weren't in old WoS, thus preserving the ZXBD id. That's already been seen, as new titles not in old-WoS that briefly appeared in new WoS had the same id as those in ZXDB.
There's no valid reason new WoS cannot continue to support the ZXDB id of titles added to ZXDB since October 2018.
There is no valid reason why new WoS cannot now support newly minted ZXDB ids for new titles by WoS starting its primary key from a number agreed to through discussion with Einar and the team that maintains ZXDB. Einar has previously proposed how to do this, by setting the AUTO_INCREMENT value on the table to a higher starting point, and has laid out a path of reciprocity and mutual support of WoS id and ZXDB ids.
Since new WoS is recording each user-contributed change as a record, and that record when processed by an "editor" can be diff'ed against the existing record, there's no valid reason why WoS cannot produce a machine readable diff of changes contributed by WoS users above the baseline of the ZXDB data.
Since ZXDB uses the Open Database License licensing criteria (and WoS agreed to when they imported ZXDB) new WoS is obliged to make those changes of ZXDB data available back to ZXDB for use by other ZXDB-powered sites. Otherwise new WoS is in breach of those licensing terms. There is no valid reason for new WoS to not comply with ZXDB's license.
It seems pretty clear to me that new WoS is a ZXDB derivative, and they've spent the last 5 years building a CMS to allow the Spectrum community to suggest additions, corrections and changes to it (with an editorial confirmation step). Those editorially applied additions, corrections and changes, should then, by rights, also flow into ZXDB, as per ZXDB's licensing terms.
Step 1 for new WoS is to
publicly acknowledge on WoS that it is powered by ZXDB, and that new
WoS will fully abide by the licensing terms of ZXDB that they agreed to when they imported ZXDB into their database. The Spectrum community deserve this unambiguous declaration.
PS: I've archived the "New WoS and ZXDB" thread on the WoS forums at this URL:
http://archive.is/NT34V -- currently with 3 snapshots. For the permanent record. I'm also in the habit of recording in an irrefutable way shenanigans involving the developer of new WoS -- as a defence to gaslighting.