Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Forking content to another site is fully allowed by the license, and better support for that (and merging it back later) would be an interesting experiment.
Yeah, I had also recently thought the Wikimedia Foundation is not working toward information freedom as such; freedom to edit is exercised, but not to redistribute, modify, and merge back. Interestingly, I think resolving this could also improve editing experience and editor retention.
I had written a small spec about making merging stuff between different wikis possible. This is what git does, and is a key driver of software freedom. More details here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2015-January/043847.html