Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm pleased to announce the existence of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, United States.
Great! Well, good things take their time... :-)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
I also noticed the Nupedia stuff. Does that mean that Nupedia is also now part of the Wikimedia family? I'm not certain if the Nupedians (if there are any left or who care) would be too happy about that.... Oh well, maybe we can bring some life to that project. I still think Nupedia (perhaps under the name GNUpedia) should be refactored to be a repository of expert-approved Wikipedia articles (along the lines of Larry's Sifter project). Thus that project would be a stable distribution of Wikipedia content but all editing would still take place at Wikipedia.
I'd like "gnupedia" for that as well. "Sifter" doesn't really sound too interesting somehow. (And, as one of the more active former Nupedia authors, I don't object including Nupedia in the wikimedia family:-)
Oh, if someone creates "textbook.wikipedia.org", could we also have a test wiki for the gunpedia project set up? It might be confusing to implement the rather restrictive sifter setup on test.wikipedia.org.
Magnus