Can anyone extract useful ideas from this blog entry:
http://thomas-lord.blogspot.com/2006/08/wikipedia-empire-based-on-open-sourc...
There is the usual suggestion that if Wikipedia adopts article forks then all will be well because then the obnoxious editors who don't want to work with others will be appeased and something about power structures. Etc etc.
But there are some vague notions of *lots* of alternate Wikipedia distributions (rather than "forks"), analogous to Linux distributions. This bit seems like an interesting idea, but I'm not quite sure how one would approach it. Categories as packages? (like an .rpm or a .deb .) Is there something here that's the seed of a useful idea?
- d.