avoiding forks (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] public service ads in Wikipedia?)

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:55:55 +0800, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> NSK wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:08, Mark Williamson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Uhhm... {{sofixit}}...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You could fix it very easily if:
> >
> >- You make Wikipedia more attractive for experts, academics, scientists
> >- You make sure no article gets forgotten by encouraging people to concentrate
> >on their own articles, instead of editing here and there in the whole wiki
> >- You allow these people to put their names and biographies in the articles
> >they write
> >- You help these people collect some donations from their readership.
> >Wikimedia Foundation collects some donations for the servers, but it could
> >also give some of it to the editors, too.
> >- You make the articles to have versions, and have a "frozen" (protected)
> >article in the mainspace, so that new contributions (which may be vandalism
> >or whatever) go to an "under construction" version.
> >
> >In our projects, such as http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org
> >(now being migrated to better software), we are trying to find ways to
> >implement these ideas. You can read some preliminary analysis for our IT wiki
> >at http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process
> >
> >
> >
> The first, of course. The second, maybe. Depends on how well it jives
> with [[Wikipedia:Ownership of articles]]. The third, hell will freeze
> over before we do that.

Which is a pity, because it means we willfully go against the GNU/FDL.

> The fourth, there's a slight chance, but I doubt
> we could work out the logistics even if we wanted to. The fifth, the
> community is still deciding on that.

Andre Engels