On 5/5/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still having difficulty figuring out where
exactly Wikibooks is
> supposed to mesh with Wikipedia in the grand Wikimedia scheme...to read some
> of the discussions there, it would seem that they don't think any kind of
> "meshing" suitable at all, which seems ridiculous to me...
Whilst in an ideal world we would be meshing left, right and centre, there
are lots of all too human reasons why we've never done so. I hope
single sign-on is not a pipe dream as it might alleviate some of them.
And similarly, Wikitravel. There is such a lot of
duplication of
effort on city articles. IMHO, a wikitravel article on a city should
basically be a great big {{wikipedia:en:Paris}} followed by "the best
bars are..." and "don't forget to buy a metro ticket". There's
plenty
of information in Wikitravel that ought to be present in Wikipedia as
well, and a vast amount of the opposite situation.
Yep if you could just spend a couple of minutes unifying the licences
for us Guy that would be great ;-).
Seriously has anything more been said about GFDL >1.2? Hopefully
Erik's freedomdefined project announced recently on this list will
have positive effects in this regard.