2008/1/3, Samuel Wantman sam@wantman.net wrote off-list and later gave me permission to reply on-list: ...
I agree with you that this should not be on a commercial site. It should be part of Wikipedia. Anything outside of Wikipedia is a backwater. I ask everyone I meet if they've been to Wikipedia. They all say they have. Then I ask them if they have ever been to Wikinews, Wiktionary or Wikia. Not a single person I have asked has even heard of Wikia. A very large majority have never been to any of the other Wikimedia projects. Anything moved from Wikipedia is moved into obscurity.
I agree 100%. Like you say, if it's not on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist.
Then again, some people will still want their stuff to be on Wikipedia, not Extrapedia, but this will at least help avoid [[WP:BITE]]'ing newcomers who write articles about non-notable topics. But still, I think this could help.
I already have a domain (Wikifree.org) and would host such a site, but I would rather see this happen as part of Wikipedia.
I, too, would rather it be done under the aegis of the Wikimedia Foundation. Though I wonder if it'd really be practical to rally enough support to get it approved.
Cheers,