Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/9/8 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanc...@gmail.com>: > >> Geographical/atlas/map kind ofproject >> >> granted, there's wikimapia and other external equivalents >> but we (Wikimedia) are lacking it >> > > Is there any point us doing something that already exists? What would > be better about a Wikimedia version? > > It would generate competition to the advantage of both sides. Similarly Wikipedia forks would help us by generating competition. Such a fork may, for example, have a different interpretation of NPOV, as would be its right on its own site. Readers would then be more free to draw their own conclusions from comparing the two sites. Another fork could choose to limit its scope to certain topics, and adopt editing policies that are more tailored to its topics.
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