On Sep 17, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Chris Phoenix wrote:
I'm building a site, http://Wise-Nano.org, using MediaWiki software. It will hopefully grow into a big collaborative informational project, but with a specific purpose: to analyze the implications and risks of advanced nanotechnology, and make wise policy.
Should I join the MediaWiki project family, or is this too special-purpose?
I'm not aware of any particular 'MediaWiki project family'. You may be thinking of the Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization running Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc. MediaWiki is just the wiki software, nothing more.
Are there any conventions or expectations for narrow clone projects using MediaWiki's look and feel, linking to their help pages, etc?
You are of course welcome to link. If you copy help pages from meta.wikipedia.org or another Wikipedia project, be sure to respect the license of those pages (GNU Free Documentation License).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)