--- Marco Krohn marco.krohn@web.de wrote:
Jimbo, I don't consider this as a strong indication that there is much overlap between wikitionary and wikipedia. We are not talking about article _names_, but about the _content_ of the articles. If you compare the content they are not even close to being similar. A small correction in the Wikipedia article about "economics" would in 99% of the cases not lead to a need to correct the
Exactly my point that this was a total strawman.
IMHO a closer comparison than a sister-project is another language, like "en" and "de". But this time the difference is that we risk to lose a lot or even all experts of the field to a more specialized project. I don't see who then will sync these articles with Wikipedias. And I don't see why we should duplicate effort before we are sure that there is no way around it. I would much prefer a technical solution, where our user base is not forked.
Great point. There is no reason to create a fork since that would divert development effort away from Wikipedia and other existing Wikimedia projects.
-- mav
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