Ray Saintonge wrote:
So long as I'm still breathing I will strenuously
fight against any
Wikimedia-sponsored fork.
Me, too, so let's not sweat about that part too much.
I suppose this begs the question, "When is a fork a fork?" Many of
Wikipedia's sister projects have some characteristics of a fork, but
they all come under the same umbrella.
Yes, you're absolutely right.
I think what Mav is against, and what I'm against, is that we should
copy a ton of articles out of Wikipedia proper and into another space
(of whatever kind) and then edit edit edit those, while having the
regular versions go off in their own direction. That seems like a lot
of wasted effort.
Pointers to "good enough" versions is going to be helpful, and then of
course once we have a "manuscript", the publisher will probably want
to copyedit it one last time, and may need to make some slight
modifications in order to fit some technical print requirements.
--Jimbo