sgilbert@nbnet.nb.ca wrote:

Stan Shebs wrote:

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But if you make small good edits in a separate Nupedia, they won't find their way back to Wikipedia, which might or might not be desirable...

Read mav's lips: No new no fork!

Er, no new fork!

If Nupedia participants edit the contents of an article, the edits take place on Wikipedia. Copyediting, corrections, re-wording all take place on Wikipedia.

My point must not have been clear enough. Simply put, past experience with large open-source projects says that some forking and remerging is inevitable. Insist that it won't be necessary all you like, and maybe it won't be, but I piped up because I saw an incorrect impression of today's open-source projects being put forth as a process model.

Stan