[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[David Gerard]

On 12 September 2011 23:17, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2011 11:10 PM, "Thomas Morton" <morton.thomas at googlemail.com>
> wrote:

>> It's a tiny bit disappointing that the tone here is "oh well, we tried and
>> failed".
>> When really it should be "cool - now we have a competitor, what do we need
>> to give WN to help them stay in the market"

> In what way are we competing? Our vision is a world where people have free
> access to all knowledge. It doesn't say we need to be the ones to provide
> that knowledge.
> We've failed. Maybe someone else will do better. If they do, our goal will
> still be achieved.


Wikinews is still recoverable. But what it's been doing so far clearly
failed. What can they do that would work? Open it up further?


- d.