[Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki

[Robin Shannon]

I would think that wikipeople/memorial/foo wouldnt have a NPOV policy,
but rather a "sympathetic to the subject" policy (since that is what
memorials ARE). I really can not imagine many flame wars occuring for
"non-notable" poeple. Everyone has got an opinion on <insert world
leader here> or <insert any war here>, but does any one really have
strong feelings on bob black who died on 11/09? Here in Australia our
greatest military event was in WW1 on the Gallipoli peninsular. We
were fighting the Ottoman (turkish) empire. Now every anzac day
Australians/Kiwis and Truks get together to commemorate the event.
Even though we were the invaders, the turkish goverment welcomes
hundreds/thousands of Aussie/Kiwi diggers to mark the occasion in
Turkey, and we commemerate both the Aussie/Kiwi deaths as well as the
turkish deaths.

The loss of any life is a tradgedy, no matter the actions of the
person when they were alive.

As to starting it on wikicities first, i think jimbo has been preety
clear that he doesnt want any blurring of the lines between his stuff,
and wikimedia's stuff.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:07:47 +0100 (CET), Traroth <traroth at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> I think the little flame war between Scott Nelson and me is the perfect illustration of what will happen continously : What could possibly happen when you ask to people in conflict (and i mean real conflict, nothing to do with something like a Wikipeda revert war...) to write on what happened to them and there family, in a media where the other side can read it and react to it ? What could be the reaction of a palestinian, who have just lost his son in an israeli bombing, when he read complaints from an israeli who just lost his wife in a palestinian bomb attack ? The fundamental problem is that you ask for reactions about subjects which just cannot be treated calmly, and especially not by the victims.
> 
> Traroth
> 
> Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, um, no matter how fun french/american/little green men from mars
> bashing may be; how about we go back to the idea of 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 objecitons?

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