At 12:53 PM 4/24/2004 +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
It mainly depends on the attitude of the group writing
the articles. What
they have to understand is that they are not writing a Mennonite
encyclopedia within Wikipedia, they are writing Wikipedia articles about
Mennonites.
Perhaps they could accomplish both goals simultaneously by creating a
separate Mennonite encyclopedia that consists of selected articles copied
from Wikipedia? If Wikipedia's style diverges from what they require they
can fork those particular articles in their own preferred direction, while
still maintaining close ties with the rest of the content (the separate
encyclopedia would not be part of the WikiMedia project, it would be
something they'd run on their own). With everything licenced under the GFDL
both the Mennonite encyclopedia and Wikipedia would be able to pick and
choose the bits of each others' material that fits.