--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like the doll-collector's wiki is saying "bugger Wikipedia" and picking a CC license specifically to maintain incompatibility - they've been put off the idea of Wikipedia *that badly*.
I haven't really been following this, but are you sure they felt the need to fork because of AfD? I ask, because there's a variety of reasons that people feel the need to start their own specialist-subject wiki. Someone recently started "CryptoDox" (http://www.cryptodox.com/), a encyclopedia of cryptography, using MediaWiki, licensed under cc by-nc-sa. Exactly the same goals, it seems, as the Wikipedia Cryptography Project.
I asked him why he didn't want to do it on Wikipedia. He replied, rather cryptically (pun not intended):
"You are right in saying "Why not Wikipedia?". But this does not mean that others are not free to try out endeavours of their own. Wikipedia is undoubtedly an outstanding project which is growing at a tremendous pace and will surely continue to do so."
"That is exactly how I would like to see CryptoDox become one day....but with just one particular domain in mind....cryptography. Can't this be done in Wikipedia? Yes! It can be done there. No doubts. But I want to see how a site dedicated to a particular domain does over time."
A little perplexing, but he doesn't seem to be an embittered AfD veteran.
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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