[Foundation-l] Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special-purpose MediaWiki clones, relation to MediaWiki family

[Erik Moeller]

Chris-
> Yes, I was thinking of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects.  Would
> Wise-Nano or Nanopedia (the hoped-for end product) be a good addition to
> that group of projects?

> If my site uses a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, does
> that fulfill the Gnu license, or do I have to include Gnu boilerplate on
> any text I copy from a Gnu'd site?

1) The appropriate list to discuss whether a particular project can be  
part of the Wikimedia set of projects is
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I've therefore CC'd my response there.

2) Generally, Wikimedia projects are very broad. There is only one notable  
exception to that rule, the recently created Wikispecies (which is why I  
think it should be incorporated into a larger Wikidata project).

It has been proposed in the past to have a "Wikipolicy" project as a sort  
of open brainstorming space for determining useful political policies on  
various issues. That might be an idea worth developing further, but I  
would oppose a narrow project like Wise-Nano.

3) All text-centric projects are under the GNU FDL (Wikispecies licensing  
is not decided yet), so that would have to be the license to use.

Regards,

Erik