[WikiEN-l] Timeline of Comixpedia fork (was "Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty")

[David Gerard]

geni wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

>> This is hairsplitting over the definition of the word "fork". It's a
>> fork because the guy was trying to work within Wikipedia to write
>> encyclopedic articles and was driven off by anti-expert bias and
>> assumption of bad faith on AFD.
>> Comixpedia is not a fork of *content* - it's a fork of the
>> *community*. That is why that such a thing could happen is a BIG RED
>> FLASHING DANGER SIGNAL.

>Not really. Comixpedia has different policies to wikipedia. Even if
>you wanted to you could not reasonably stop that. I'm involved with
>scepticWiki no sane change to wikipedia policy could prevent that from
>being seperate.


You keep ignoring the point: Comixpedia wouldn't *exist* except it was
a community forking from Wikipedia.

That it has different policies came *after* the fact of the community
fork, and the reasons for the fork. Don't get your timeline mixed up
here.


- d.