Erik Moeller wrote:
Daniel-
>Absolutely not within Wikimedia! That flies
directly in the face of NPOV,
>leads to needless duplication in what we are doing, and transfers edit wars
>to all articles that link to the forked versions
In the long term it will be desirable to have multiple
views on an article
besides NPOV, whether it's a Wikinews story or a Wikipedia article.
Duplication can be avoided using powerful diff/merging tools as they are
already used in the open source development world (darcs, BitKeeper etc.).
Each view will be managed by a group of people who make their own rules as
to who else is allowed to add information, with NPOV being the "mother
view" from which other views can be extracted (as NPOV is the most
inclusive).
So you will get a version of the circumcision article approved and edited
by the APA, or a version of the creationism article approved and edited by
the Institute for Creationism.
I believe you have just described Wikinfo, Fred Bauder's fork of Wikipedia.
That is, it's already been done.
- d.