geni wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
This is hairsplitting over the definition of the word "fork". It's a fork because the guy was trying to work within Wikipedia to write encyclopedic articles and was driven off by anti-expert bias and assumption of bad faith on AFD. Comixpedia is not a fork of *content* - it's a fork of the *community*. That is why that such a thing could happen is a BIG RED FLASHING DANGER SIGNAL.
Not really. Comixpedia has different policies to wikipedia. Even if you wanted to you could not reasonably stop that. I'm involved with scepticWiki no sane change to wikipedia policy could prevent that from being seperate.
You keep ignoring the point: Comixpedia wouldn't *exist* except it was a community forking from Wikipedia.
That it has different policies came *after* the fact of the community fork, and the reasons for the fork. Don't get your timeline mixed up here.
- d.