Hi,
Robert Horning a écrit :
There is a certain bureaucratic process that goes into
establishing a sister project, and I'm beginning to see a bit of wisdom
to that process as well. I should note that 95% (I think it is actually
worse than this) of all new project ideas are shot down or left in a
sort of "development hell" (to borrow a term from the motion picture
industry) where a couple of ideas keep recurring, but don't seem to take
off for some reason or another. A children's oriented encyclopedia
happens to be one of those recurring ideas, I should point out, and you
nor those you are working with are the first to come up with this idea.
I don't think you will be the last to bring it up in this forum either.
(...) I'm still not entirely sure what it is that
you
would like to see happen ultimately with this project proposal of yours
if everything went exactly as you would like it to happen.
Well I wonder what *you* would like to happen for this idea and if you would really like
to develop further. I hope you don't want this project to be left in a "sort of
development hell" for years ! Anyway we are not in a "development hell"
right now.
Let's anserw to this question "In the best of the cases" I would like that
this to happen:
- The WMF would approve the project
- the main features of Vikidia which are very closed, not to say the same, as those of
WikiKids.nl would be kept,
- I would give the fr.vikidia wiki and the domain name if needed,
- I would be "paid", let's say, a scholarship for Wikimania,
- children encyclopedia could be launched in other languages.
If the anserw is no, we would continue like now, and propably nevertheless try to simulate
or help other Vikidia-type encyclopedia in other languages, and let them be coordinated,
but we won't use this mailing-list for that.
Gerard Dummer a écrit :
This becomes a bit confusing for me. I only posted on this list because Matthias pointed
out the discussion that was going on this list. I do not at this moment see any reason to
become an Wikimedia sister project. I don't even know what that means. What are the
advantages? This also isn't really a project proposal.
WikiKids isn't an project in the "development hell". It is up and running.
Maybe this was the wrong place to post a message. Again, I only posted here to explain
what WikiKids is. There already is a small community around WikiKids in the Netherlands.
And it's growing. Also with people from Belgium (Flanders).
I'm sorry if you have felt critical comments because of me, and thank you for your
explanation about Wikikids.nl.
Mathias Damour