[Wikipedia-l] What is the purpose of this mailing list ??
Gerard Meijssen
gja.meijssen at chello.nl
Wed Aug 25 10:16:04 UTC 2004
Marco Krohn wrote:
>On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:05, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
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>>*WikiSpecies will be a sister-project and as such it is not for this
>>mailing list to decide what is going to happen.
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>up to now a Wikipedia sister-project meant that its content is (mostly)
>disjoint with the content of any other Wikipedia project. That means that an
>article is either in A or in B (or = exclusive or).
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>The proposed project "wikispecies" will have a huge overlap with existing
>Wikipedia articles. Therefore using the term sister-project is IMHO wrong,
>and calling it a "partial fork" is much closer to reality.
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>best regards,
> Marco
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Which wikipedia articles are you talking about? en:articles de:articles
? Should nl: articles not be written because they have an overlap with
de: or en:? WikiSpecies will if anything provide a resource for all
wikipedia.
Thanks,
GerardM
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