wikia.com is an example of a wiki fork project. and it looks to be doing fine :) I like it as it hosts my acrosscanadatrails.wikia.com website.
Its outside of wikipeda, and it's facebook integrated. wikimapia is also a fork project, and it's doing great. It has a function and surves a purpose. and as Brendan mentioned. The 'Average User will always be the average user' :) .... so it's up to us to make a great place for people to have something that keeps people interested, and serves a function. The entire Geospatial-everything Community as a whole is BIG and there certainly is room for many maps, of many kinds. ... and they all are good, and they all serve their unique purpose. cheers, sam On 10/2/10, Katie Filbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 10/02/2010 02:45 AM, Dave F. wrote: >>> With the various forks that could/are taking place within OSM I'm >>> curious if there are any other examples? >> >> Wikipedia has a catalogue of forks, unfortunately mixed with mirrors: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks >> >> (I particularly like >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#The_Mcfly >> _Network.) >> >> There *must* have been some forking action when Wikipedia changed >> their license from GFDL to CC-BY-SA I'm sure but I cannot find >> documentation on that. > > No fork that I know of due to license change, at least nothing serious > that I heard about. > > In 2002, the Spanish Wikipedia forked and people went to the other > project. The fork had to do with differences of project policies not > license, the fork died few years later. Spanish Wikipedia grew more > slowly as a result > > There's also citizendium, not really a fork at all but different and > unsuccessful way of having articles reviewed and vetted. > > There is some debate about licenses among some of our more prolific > and talented photographers. The GFDL license gives photographers more > opportunity to make some $$ from their works as some book publishers > rather not adhere to GFDL and don't mind paying for use of a good > photograph found on Wikipedia. > > Katie > >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
