Perhaps the most important thing of all would be license compatibility. They say that they will have a "free license" -- it it is GNU FDL, that's great. If it's something else, well, things can get very complicated as far as reuse goes.
Magnus Manske wrote:
Vlad from the Open-site project (open-site.org), another free encyclopedia just starting, answered to my "merger" proposal. I forward this to the list for discussion.
From: vladd jocuri@softhome.net Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:08:48 +0200 To: Magnus.Manske@epost.de Subject: Open-Site.org
Hello Magnus,
My name is Vlad Dascalu and I'm one of the administrators of the Open-Site project. I've read links on Wikipedia about it, such as:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Site http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOpen_Site http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/thread.html#8549
Those are interesting comments. A "merge" of 2 projects would be relatively complicated, but it could prove also very useful for the Internet community.
I don't have a strong opinion about it, one way or another, but I think there are some possibilities of integration, if not full, at least partially, that they warrent discussion. That's why I insisted to contact you, so you could have an email address for future contacts. You can use staff@open-site.org , and that will go directly to all admins of the Open-Site project.
Another integration possibility would be code-only, it would be cool to have the same code power both projects. See http://open-site.org/code for more details.
Anyway, I hope we find the time to explore those possibilities in the future, in order to provide to the Internet community the best opened content possible.
Thanks and congratulations for the work you put in Wikipedia, Vlad.