On 1/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sam Korn wrote:
We should *encourage* the creation of forks, so long as they have a compatible licence.
I'm speaking of a particular reason for a fork. Are you saying you think the current example, and the image of Wikipedia that's the reason for it, is a *good* thing?
No, we should encourage forks in a different way. We should encourage the creation of forks with the specific intention of having the content merged into Wikipedia when it is of better quality and therefore less likely to be deleted.
Then we can merge them back in and hopefully restore our image within the specialist communities.
That's a good idea, but ...
If your point is that it's impractical, we should damn well *make* it practical.
A little more assumption of good faith and preparedness to admit to being wrong on AfD would also help.
Go reread (or read) the evidence in the webcomics case. Note the direct assumptions of bad faith on the part of subject experts saying to AFD "actually, you're wrong on this one." They didn't start out having no faith in AFD's good will.
Funnily enough, many people when confronted with utter blithering stupidity will go so far as to say out loud "that's blithering stupidity."
I'm talking about both sides. However, it is easier to deal with people acting in bad faith when you're not acting in bad faith yourself.
-- Sam