[Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

[geni]

On 12 November 2010 17:37, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
> An'n 12.11.2010 08:56, hett geni schreven:
>> Should we offer to host citizendium?
> Headlines of tomorrow: "Wikipedia buys out competitor. Chucked-out
> Editor-in-Chief Larry Sanger says: They try to defend their de-facto
> information monopoly before their challengers become too strong". Or
> something like that.

It doesn't actually accuse us of any criminal activity. So by our
standards not to bad.

>Okay, pure speculation. But I don't think it's a
> good idea to host them. If we want to keep them for the innovative
> effects of competition we should keep them organizationally separate
> from Wikimedia.

That is rather dependent on their continuing to exist.

> If Wikimedians want to rescue them: donate money to them.

In this case throwing money at the problem isn't going to work. There
are deeper issues.


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geni