geni wrote:
On 11/14/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
Case where this happened really badly: webcomics. We now have a project fork, Comixpedia, entirely caused by AFD. You may recall extensive discussion surrounding this on this list a few weeks ago.
You relise I don't view the existance of Comixpedia (other than their choice to use CC) as a bad thing. Wikipedia needs these subject specific spinoffs. I hope to see more of them.
They *should* be called WikiProjects, so they can keep the material in Wikipedia where it's useful.
Are you honestly saying you think driving an expert off Wikipedia to found a fork of the community, and the process by which it happened, is *good*? Or are you saying the end justify the means - whatever it takes to achieve a subject fork?
- d.