On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Charter was created in > September 2004 with: > > --- > As quoted from Jimbo Wales: > > "As you know, the creation of this project was somewhat controversial > in some quarters, and so I propose an early development of a strong > non-forking policy guideline here, illustrating how wikispecies > significantly differs from articles that would appear in a general > encyclopedia. > > Here are some of the key points that the board put forward when we > approved this project: > > We set up the WikiSpecies wiki for biologists to begin organizing the project. > > We propose that as the software is developed, it should work to > strongly support integration with wikipedia, to help avoid duplication > of effort, i.e. to avoid forking. > > We ask the participants on wikispecies to particularly think about how > their work should differ from a generalist encyclopedia." > --- > > Does anyone know where this Jimmy quote comes from? I presume it is > after the WMF board meeting on 5 September 2004 as it quotes from it > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/September_5,_2004 > (created 26 September 2004) > > I think the Wiki "charter" needs to be made a bit more .. err .. like > a charter. It is linked to from the Wikispecies about page > > https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:About >
Very likely out of the board meeting indeed. Chance is that this was followed by an announcement on the mailing list by Jimbo. Did you take a look at mailing list archives ? Florence _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l