[Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki

[Fred Bauder]

My main concern is that it is likely to be boring and underutilized.
Underutilization means that errors are unlikely to be corrected and trivial
information included with important information left out.

While there are families, and certain ethnic groups who are into this kind
of thing, indeed almost a mass movement, those folks are already doing their
thing in other established venues and may not come over to our new project
in sufficient numbers to make it viable.

One may also criticize the project as lacking significance. Most geneologies
are not that interesting; few are of social signficance. Sadly the same is
true of most deaths. Including only memorials of victims of some event
increases significance. Including all who ever lived reduces it.

Fred

> From: Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com>, Wikimedia Foundation
> Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:08:51 +1100
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki
> 
> wikipeople, what's
> wrong with it? Its been around for quite a while and hasnt got up yet.
> Why? We already have content to put into it (11/09wiki) and it could
> tie up some loose ends, so what are the objections to it? The only
> objection i have heard so far is that it would turn into one big flame
> war (something i disagree with). Any other objections?