Wikipedian, s. A subspecies of homo sapiens sapiens. Wikipedians are indistinguishable from ordinary humans on grounds of their outward appearance, but they can be easily identified as all Wikipedians will only ever own a limited set of cutlery in their households. That's because Wikipedians have a congenital aversion of forks.
On 26 Oct 2004, at 10:39, Angela wrote:
Rebecca wrote:
The minutes of the last board meeting suggested that money was being accepted to found a Wikijunior project.
The proposal is still under discussion. Whether Wikijunior will be a separate project has not been decided by the board. The only thing the board has approved was the proposal that was sent to the Beck Foundation, and the only commitment mentioned in that was to:
"release a pamphlet of 48 full-color pages (8½" x 11") on a topic related to animals by December 2005."
This is currently no more than a Wikireader, something that does not need a project-wide vote in my opinion. There have already been various print projects not formally approved by the board, and I don't view Wikijunior _at this stage_ as anything more than that. There is a possibility it could be more, and that it might end up being a separate site, but whether than happens ought to be subject to the same conditions that Wikinews and other proposed projects will be. Having said that, I'm not sure starting a children's Wikipedia would be a separate project any more than starting new language Wikipedias are, and those are decided at the moment by developers, not by the board. There was certainly no board approval for the recently started projects in Old English or Gothic.
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