>Of course, by this rationale, Wikimedia Commons
itself is an unnecessary
>fork, since all the images in the Commons could be put into Wikipedia
>itself.
Tsk tsk, being English-centric. Don't you realize
that the Italian
wikipedia can't refer to an English WP image directly, but has to
upload each one to it:WP specifically? We have thousands of cloned
images by now. The Commons is actually an anti-fork that will
make all the images accessible to all WPs equally.
As the same could be said of Wikispecies (right now we have redundant
species information in every language Wikipedia), this is precisely my
point.