David Gerard (fun@thingy.apana.org.au) [060117 08:32]:
Matt R (matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk) [060117 08:27]:
--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like the doll-collector's wiki is saying "bugger Wikipedia" and picking a CC license specifically to maintain incompatibility - they've been put off the idea of Wikipedia *that badly*.
I haven't really been following this, but are you sure they felt the need to fork because of AfD?
Go read the threads. Yes, explicitly because of the webcomics debacle and the way experts are actually treated on AFD/DRV, which is to say really very badly. They didn't even want to risk that. I'm shouting about it because (a) it's a completely unnecessary fork and quite definitely happened for this reason and (b) this just happens to be one we *know about*.
I should add: it's distinctly odd and disquieting to see so many people reacting to this with apparent denial - claiming it couldn't really be because Wikipedia has places that threat people badly enough that outsiders don't want to risk it any more, it must be some other barely-plausible reason. (I remember geni trying to make this out to be the case with the Comixpedia fork even when it was explicitly because AFD were being complete arses.) This is actually a problem and I submit that it's a serious one. Is two enough? Will it be a problem with three or four? It's not the fact of the forks, it's the reason for them.
- d.