Charles Matthews wrote: > Surreptitiousness wrote: > >> At some point the arbitration committee is going to have to make tough >> decisions, if only to see exactly where the chips fall. If the >> arbitration committee is sometimes afraid of acting, what hope have we >> got? David brought up the idea of forking again, and maybe that's what >> we need to explore once again, maybe we do need to investigate a fork of >> the project. >> > Ah, the Golgafrincham solution (see > [[Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Golgafrincham]]). Sort > of, anyway. The pious hope of a fork in which those who really, really > hate currrent dispute resolution processes are invited to work on a WP > clone, licensed in the same way as the original, and so to take their > dramatics somewhere else. Without the cryogenics, though. This of course > is what Citizendium should have been, but they ducked cloning the > material and editing it down. I think this is just a science-fiction or > desert-island fable, but I could be wrong. It could be "Lord of the > Flies" or a "brave new world" - who knows? I think DG is astutely > putting this forward as a reply to people with no contructive > suggestions as to how to move forward from where we are now. > Nah, you're probably right. Mind, didn't I use this as a springboard for another idea which got snipped? Sorry, was just brainstorming again. I don't think the idea is to get people to take their dramatics elsewhere, it's more an idea of working out how to have one's cake and eat it. Mind, if I am being unconstructive, please feel free just to call me on it.
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