--- Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
I've read the recent discussions on new project policies, and it seems that there is somewhat of a consensus that focusing on the existing projects is more important than recruiting new ones. I agree with this, but I also think that this should not prevent us from working on some policies for the future, as least on the question of licensing.
I participate in the WikiTree project [http://wikitree.org], and we're seeing some success and popularity. Before we get too big, though, we would like to know if there is any licensing policy that would be an issue if we later would like to become a part of WikiMedia. We're currently BY-NC-SA, and a license switch would essentially force us to erase all data and start over. As such, we'd like to get it right.
Non-commercial licenses are evil. I seriously doubt any project with a non-com license would be adopted by the foundation. CC-BY-SA or FDL would be a better fit ; esp since CC and the FSF are working on making those licenses compatible.
What is this project about anyway? I can't access it right now for some reason. If it is, as I suspect, related to taxonomy or is focused on creating articles about living things, then that would be duplicated of two existing Wikimedia projects; Wikipedia (which aims to have articles on every genus on earth and articles on every living thing for which more than a stub can be written about) and the ill-conceived and poorly-executed fork of that at Wikispecies (a project that is nearly as embarrassing as the Sep11wiki).
-- mav
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