[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

[David Levy]

Nathan wrote:

> This sounds like a very interesting idea to me. None of the potential
> problems are obvious dealbreakers to me. It isn't outsourcing, the talkpage
> can be shared as easily as anything else, we would really like to take
> advantage of concentrated groups of expert users, and the more editors we
> get (wherever we get them from) the better off the projects are.

But what's the point of duplicating the entire structure (including
talk pages) instead of simply referring these experts to Wikipedia?
Even if everything could be made seamless, what would be the
advantage?