--- Marco Krohn <marco.krohn(a)web.de> wrote:
Jimbo, I don't consider this as a strong
indication that there is much
overlap
between wikitionary and wikipedia. We are not talking about article _names_,
but about the _content_ of the articles. If you compare the content they are
not even close to being similar. A small correction in the Wikipedia article
about "economics" would in 99% of the cases not lead to a need to correct the
Exactly my point that this was a total strawman.
IMHO a closer comparison than a sister-project is
another language, like "en"
and "de". But this time the difference is that we risk to lose a lot or even
all experts of the field to a more specialized project. I don't see who then
will sync these articles with Wikipedias. And I don't see why we should
duplicate effort before we are sure that there is no way around it. I would
much prefer a technical solution, where our user base is not forked.
Great point. There is no reason to create a fork since that would divert
development effort away from Wikipedia and other existing Wikimedia projects.
-- mav
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