On 16/12/2007, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
But so far that seems to be getting started fairly
slowly, especially as
regards other nonprofit organizations doing something interesting with
our content. Why this is I'm not entirely sure. Is it that nobody has
good ideas? Or they find the format we provide our dumps in too
intimidating? Or they want more filtered/stable content? Or they lack
money? Etc.
That we haven't had a good full-history dump of en:wp in a year has
hampered interesting reuses of its content. (The dumps issue is being
addressed - see Brion's blog at
http://leuksman.com/blog - I'm
mentioning it in terms of the consequences of this.)
That forking from us is harder than it should be is a problem.
Citizendium tried starting as a full-content fork and then realised
(a) it wasn't viable with the numbers of people interested in a tiny
project just starting out (b) it hampered them getting on with writing
stuff themselves. ([[:en:Fork (software development)]] discusses the
problem.)
- d.