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

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 18:28:24 UTC 2006


On 18/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

There's that fork of es.wp...

> And more open content is good for everyone.

Always true.

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- Andrew Gray
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