[WikiEN-l] WikiProjects vs the community splitting (was "Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty")

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

David Gerard wrote:
> geni wrote:
> 
> 
>>Forks allow people with a common interest to work quitely on a project
>>sorounded only by those who share their interests. For some this
>>enviroment may be more productive.
> 
> 
> 
> We have WikiProjects to create such an environment, and they have the
> added bonus of keeping the content usable within Wikipedia (so that,
> e.g., the creators of a community fork aren't so damn pissed off with
> their treatment here they pick an incompatible license as a
> "fuck-you").
> 
> What is there that a community fork achieves that a WikiProject does
> not, in your view?
> 

I can think of one thing: they're guaranteed that no dumb kid is going
to wander in a slap {{afd}} on everything they're working on.

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