On 8/12/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But there are some vague notions of *lots* of alternate Wikipedia distributions (rather than "forks"), analogous to Linux distributions. This bit seems like an interesting idea, but I'm not quite sure how one would approach it. Categories as packages? (like an .rpm or a .deb .) Is there something here that's the seed of a useful idea?
- d.
Yes and no. Full forks are pretty much imposible. Maintianing something the size if wikipedia is going to be beyond the rescources of a group just starting out and the momentum from the existing articles is going to prevent rapid chages. What forks there are will cover narrow subject areas. For those that want a different POV they will have to start from scratch. This already happens.