[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 12:36:37 UTC 2005
geni wrote:
>On 11/14/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Case where this happened really badly: webcomics. We now have a
>> project fork, Comixpedia, entirely caused by AFD. You may recall
>> extensive discussion surrounding this on this list a few weeks ago.
>You relise I don't view the existance of Comixpedia (other than their
>choice to use CC) as a bad thing. Wikipedia needs these subject
>specific spinoffs. I hope to see more of them.
They *should* be called WikiProjects, so they can keep the material in
Wikipedia where it's useful.
Are you honestly saying you think driving an expert off Wikipedia to
found a fork of the community, and the process by which it happened,
is *good*? Or are you saying the end justify the means - whatever it
takes to achieve a subject fork?
- d.
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