[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 14:19:54 UTC 2009


2009/4/21 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
> Exactly what I thought. Better integration and support for wikiprojects
> (have to say, I sort of prefer "task groups" as a name...), better
> recognition on the wiki of top contributors to various articles -- those are
> things we could really learn from. And if we could approach the proprietor,
> and encourage a more compatible licensing scheme, our Chinese language
> projects could really benefit (and their project could benefit from
> Wikimedia content).
>
> Did this thing just appear out of nowhere? Suddenly a collaborative online
> reference site larger than the English Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudong

It was founded in 2005, apparently. The "Censorship and controversy"
section of that article makes me question whether we want to get too
involved with it. Their values seem to be significantly different to
ours.



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