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