[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:53 AM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single
> articles, sets of articles or complete wikipedias, and people reply about
> setting up servers/mediawiki/importing_databases and other geeky weekend
> parties. That is why there is no successful forks. Forking Wikipedia is
> _hard_.
>
> People need a button to create a branch of an article or sets of articles,
> and be allowed to re-write and work in the way they want. Of course, the
> resulting articles can't be saved/showed close to the Wikipedia articles,
> but in a new plataform. It would be an interesting experiment.

Something like this.. ?

http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:PersonalWikiTool

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John Vandenberg