On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another problem is that forking of a large Wikipedia edition has > proven to be extremely difficult, regardless of the availability of > image dumps, so the threat is very weak. The Chinese experience should > tell us how hard it is: Baidu Baike and Hudong were able to thrive > only with the Chinese Wikipedia completely blocked in Mainland China. > > -- Tim Starling There is a relevant anecdote to go with this. A physics teacher was telling his students how compared to the other fundamental forces, gravity was comparatively very very weak. Just as he said that, a wall attached speaker failed its mountings and came crashing down behind him. Without missing a beat he continued. "Weak, but non-neglible." -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
