Erik Moeller wrote in response to Daniel:
I agree completely except for the name of the "stable" Wikipedia distribution; that, IMO, should be the slightly different "GNUpedia." Of course the GNU people esp RMS would have to sign off on our use of the "GNU" brand. If they do not feel comfortable with that then we can use Nupedia.
Even if they do (which I somewhat doubt unless we more openly endorse or participate in the GNU project), this would link us strongly to the GNU philosophy.
Just to throw something in to the discussion:
See http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/
Our idea for a free encyclopedia is described in The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource.
Just as we were starting a project, GNUpedia, to develop a free encyclopedia, the Nupedia encyclopedia project adopted the GNU Free Documentation License and thus became a free commercial project. So we decided to merge GNUpedia project into Nupedia. Now, the Wikipedia encyclopedia project has adopted the philosophy of Nupedia and taken it even further. We encourage you to visit and contribute to the site.
Cheers Claudine