Poor, Edmund W wrote:
[from wikien-l - Ed is talking about another foundation, not the WMF, who are interested in doing a Wikipedia distribution]
The foundation plans to hire professional editors and writers. They'll create, say, an additional 4,000 articles (on lofty topics, no doubt ;-) and also choose a subset of the half million Wikipedia articles to whip into shape. But I'm recommending to the foundation that any articles it revises be posted back to Wikipedia immediately - as opposed to waiting until their publication day. (I don't know the legal niceties; is prompt re-publication a requirement, or can they hang on to their version in-house till the last minute?) BOTH projects would surely benefit from this cross- pollination.
Heh. I wonder how their versions will go down with the Wikipedia community. Are they familiar with the history of Nupedia?
Have you read [[Category:Wikipedia 1.0]] ? I've been putting project pages into it that I think are relevant to the endeavour.
Also, the Wikimedia Foundation would beyond a doubt be highly interested in working with this other foundation!
I'd like to do whatever I can to reduce the 'forkiness' of the foundation's project and increase the 'give-and-take-iness' of it. Collaboration has been the key of Wikipedia's success; let's not change horses in midstream.
Indeed!
- d.