At 12:53 PM 4/24/2004 +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
It mainly depends on the attitude of the group writing the articles. What they have to understand is that they are not writing a Mennonite encyclopedia within Wikipedia, they are writing Wikipedia articles about Mennonites.
Perhaps they could accomplish both goals simultaneously by creating a separate Mennonite encyclopedia that consists of selected articles copied from Wikipedia? If Wikipedia's style diverges from what they require they can fork those particular articles in their own preferred direction, while still maintaining close ties with the rest of the content (the separate encyclopedia would not be part of the WikiMedia project, it would be something they'd run on their own). With everything licenced under the GFDL both the Mennonite encyclopedia and Wikipedia would be able to pick and choose the bits of each others' material that fits.