[Foundation-l] Citizendium, a new venture, will "fork" off from online encyclopedia Wikipedia

[Brion Vibber]

Sabine Cretella wrote:
> Does it sound strange to you that at the beginning of this year I said 
> to a friend of mine that my feeling told me that someone will take over 
> the contents of Wikipedia and create a separate project.

That's entirely normal in the course of events, and only one of many such 
projects; Wikipedia has an open-content license precisely to allow these sorts 
of projects.

> I don't believe Citizendium will be able to take over Wikipedia, but you 
> never know - it would definitely be much better to have scientists work 
> on Wikipedia.

It's not about "taking over", but about taking useful resources and doing 
additional things with them. We of course celebrate and applaud any serious 
undertaking to make use of Wikipedia content.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)