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

[emijrp]

Yes, that tool looks similar to the idea I wrote. Other approaches may be
possible too.

2011/8/13 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>

> 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
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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