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

[geni]

On 9/18/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/09/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Yes. Though we're notably lacking in forks that are actively edited;
> Wikinfo is the only one I know of. Other than that it's pretty much
> static mirror sites with Google ads.
>
>

Trying to fight off our smarter vandels without haveing our antivandel
people tends to result in people haveing to make registration hard
which kills the project.


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geni