I am not sure you really realise what you are writing here Jan.
Consider carefully the "it wastes effort but we can still copy articles from them" and vice versa - thank you for it actually, some of us that do great copies of the en.wiki do put the link each time. Not so much to give you credit maybe, than to try to link our wikis together rather than making separate wikis... Now, if you understand french (are you belgian ?), we would be most delighted to see you copy an article from the fr.site one day...
Also consider very carefully the "does our license then FORCE them to put a link on every article that they have copied from the original site" That's an interesting comment. Indeed I'd like to know what the licence says about that !
But you gave me an idea. I didnot put much on the en.wiki. But, do you think I should insist it was from french langage originally ? LOL. never crossed my mind before !
Let's be serious. I consider great that some french speaking come and visit from time to time. We must somehow get over these cultural differences.
--- "Jan.Hidders" hidders@uia.ua.ac.be wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:56:16PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
We should consider doing some strategizing to make sure another fork doesn�t happen (I hear members
of
the French wikipedia threatened a fork in the
past).
Is that really such a big problem? I know it wastes effort but we can still copy articles from them and vice versa, right? But does our license then force them to put a link on every article that they have copied from the original site?
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