--- Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3(a)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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