On 11/15/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
geni wrote:
> What is there that a community fork achieves that
a WikiProject does
> not, in your view?
A community fork allows people to claim a greater level
of ownership
of articles.
OK. Now, please address the problem:
> 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").
As I asked before:
Are you honestly saying you think driving an expert off Wikipedia to
found a fork of the community, and the process by which it happened,
is *good*? Or are you saying the end justifies the means - whatever it
takes to achieve a subject fork?
- d.