[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Mar 15 07:26:20 UTC 2011


On 03/14/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> So that would mean exporting all BLPs to a completely separate project, like
> Commons, which hosts and edits these BLPs, which are then available as read-
> only pages in Wikipedia. The existing BLPs in Wikipedia would be deleted,
> and any BLPs created in Wikipedia would be instantly deleted, or moved to
> the other project if they show promise.

Taking that one step further, when the subject of one of these 
biographies dies the article would need to move back; the proper article 
history would also need to move.  Moves would also involve making sure 
that a lot of links are repaired.

Ec



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