[Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Sep 12 23:35:07 UTC 2009


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Geographical/atlas/map kind ofproject
>>
>> granted, there's wikimapia and other external equivalents
>> but we (Wikimedia) are lacking it
>>     
>
> Is there any point us doing something that already exists? What would
> be better about a Wikimedia version?
>
>   
It would generate competition to the advantage of both sides.  Similarly 
Wikipedia forks would help us by generating competition.  Such a fork 
may, for example, have a different interpretation of NPOV, as would be 
its right on its own site.  Readers would then be more free to draw 
their own conclusions from comparing the two sites.  Another fork could 
choose to limit its scope to certain topics, and adopt editing policies 
that are more tailored to its topics.

Ec



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