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). Specifically, we might want to revisit the idea of wikipedia becoming a non-profit (preferably a European one). That way, anti-Americanism and distrust of Boomis (which is both an American company and, /gasp/, for-profit) wouldn't weigh on anybody's mind.

That's on the back burner too--I really want to get things running well before we start that process, but it's definitely still on my mind and Larry's, and I'm pretty sure Jimbo's as well.

But even so, I'm not sure a fork is such a bad thing (or to be clear, I don't think it's bad if some other group owns one of the foreign Wikis--I do think it's bad to have to separate ones). I'll be happy to give them my software, and yes, we can make the language links go there instead of to Bomis, and just hand the job over to them if they think they can do it better. When they grow enough to have the problems that we've had, they might give up, in which case we'd just take over again with their content. Or they might really do a better job, in which case we can learn from their experience. 0