[WikiEN-l] Re: "Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty"

[Angela]

On 11/14/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There might be a time when forks will work well, but that'll be several
> > years from now, when the user base is much bigger and there are better
> > sofware interfaces and visualizations to sort through the differences
> > between the forks.
> http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page
> I think that dissproves your claim.

As I've said before
(<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-September/028369.html>),
Memory Alpha was never a fork of Wikipedia. This idea was derived from
the Star Trek Encyclopedia which predates Wikipedia by over 7 years.
It is under an incompatible license, which should mean that none of
the content in MA was even taken from Wikipedia. Please stop assuming
every other project that uses MediaWiki must be a fork of Wikipedia
since it really isn't true.

Angela.