From: erik_moeller(a)gmx.de (Erik Moeller)
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: 11 Oct 2004 21:17:00 +0200
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Article forks (was Re: Loosing more of our
best contributors)
David-
I believe you have just described Wikinfo, Fred
Bauder's fork of Wikipedia.
That is, it's already been done.
Wikinfo is an example, yes, although they do the keeping-in-sync part
manually. I actually wrote a little script that makes the merging of
Wikinfo and Wikipedia articles easier a while ago, not sure if anyone uses
it. In the long term, I want multiple such forks with specific purposes
(views) and I want to facilitate the cooperation between these different
variants of our content. Mav's concerns about doing this within Wikimedia
are understandable, but false. I will prove this when the time comes.
Regards,
Erik
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