On 11/15/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
geni wrote:
What is there that a community fork achieves that a WikiProject does not, in your view?
A community fork allows people to claim a greater level of ownership of articles.
OK. Now, please address the problem:
We have WikiProjects to create such an environment, and they have the added bonus of keeping the content usable within Wikipedia (so that, e.g., the creators of a community fork aren't so damn pissed off with their treatment here they pick an incompatible license as a "fuck-you").
As I asked before:
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 justifies the means - whatever it takes to achieve a subject fork?
- d.