[WikiEN-l] Fork risk (was Re: Google ads)

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

The only fork reason i see at the moment is because of philosophical
reasons, en. is no longer free with fair-use all over Image:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:41:55 +1000, Tim Starling
<ts4294967296 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> 
> > I personally don't have a distaste for ads - they just annoy me a bit. But I do
> > have a distaste for the thought of forks such as with Enciclopedia Libre. This
> > is especially dangerous now that chapters are being set-up that could fund a
> > successful fork.
> 
> If a Wikimedia chapter wants to buy servers for their language wiki to
> avoid slow, poor-quality service or site-wide advertising, then we
> should give them our blessing. We should also give them a conditional
> license to use the Wikipedia name, access to private SQL dumps and full
> technical support. And once they have their hardware set up, we can set
> the relevant DNS entries to point to them. We can help them with backups
> and redundancy with a slave database server in Florida replicating all
> writes. In order to allow software upgrades, maintenance tasks and
> future features such as shared logins, it would be nice if all the
> developers with shell access to the Florida servers also had shell
> access to the foreign servers.
> 
> Forking is a bad thing because it implies duplicate effort from editors.
> But I see no reason to fear distribution. The French chapter is
> prohibited by law from sending most of their money to Florida, so in the
> future it might be best for them to contribute hardware.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
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