> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 12/21/10 1:12 PM, David Gerard wrote: >>> >>> I can't speak for anyone but myself - but I think, and I've seen many >>> others who express an opinion think, that competition would be good >>> and monopoly as *the* encyclopedia is not intrinsically a good thing. >> >> I can't agree more. To this end, Wikipedia should be encouraging >> forks, >> encouraging other sites to copy articles into other wikis which in turn >> could edit them into something consistent with the new site's >> philosophies. Being the sole arbiter of NPOV can lead to very >> un-neutral results. Where other sites have been copying and developing >> articles in their own way, WP could even have interwiki links to these >> other sites. > > <snip> > >> The initiative must still come from those who would run those sites. > > Indeed. Just out of interest, how many people here would consider > devoting the time and energy and resources into setting up a Wikipedia > fork? I know some active Wikipedians have done so, but sustaining such > forks can be very difficult. What practical steps can be taken to > encourage a diversity of useful and sustainable forks that demonstrate > what is and is not possible? Or is th etime better spent improving WMF > projects? > > Carcharoth
I'm not available for serious sustained work on any fork but Wikinfo, but I can help people get set up. There has to be a vision though, of something better. Maybe something that is an actual wiki, quick and easy, rather than the template coding hell Wikipedia's turned into. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
