Poor, Edmund W wrote:
[from wikien-l - Ed is talking about another foundation,
not the WMF, who are interested in doing a Wikipedia
distribution]
The foundation plans to hire professional editors and
writers. They'll create, say, an additional 4,000
articles (on lofty topics, no doubt ;-) and also
choose a subset of the half million Wikipedia articles
to whip into shape.
But I'm recommending to the foundation that any
articles it revises be posted back to Wikipedia
immediately - as opposed to waiting until their
publication day. (I don't know the legal niceties; is
prompt re-publication a requirement, or can they hang
on to their version in-house till the last minute?)
BOTH projects would surely benefit from this cross-
pollination.
Heh. I wonder how their versions will go down with the Wikipedia community.
Are they familiar with the history of Nupedia?
Have you read [[Category:Wikipedia 1.0]] ? I've been putting project pages
into it that I think are relevant to the endeavour.
Also, the Wikimedia Foundation would beyond a doubt be highly interested in
working with this other foundation!
I'd like to do whatever I can to reduce the
'forkiness' of
the foundation's project and increase the 'give-and-take-iness'
of it. Collaboration has been the key of Wikipedia's success;
let's not change horses in midstream.
Indeed!
- d.