[Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki

Thu Jan 6 07:24:44 UTC 2005

--- Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, um, no matter how fun french/american/little green men from mars
> bashing may be; how about we go back to the idea of wikipeople, what's
> wrong with it? Its been around for quite a while and hasnt got up yet.
> Why? We already have content to put into it (11/09wiki) and it could
> tie up some loose ends, so what are the objections to it? The only
> objection i have heard so far is that it would turn into one big flame
> war (something i disagree with). Any other objecitons?

Up to this point there has not been enough interest in it and no one person has
been leading the charge and motivating people into being interested. In short,
Wikipeople needs a champion. I've put forth my ideas for the project at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimorial and others have done so at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipeople but nobody has been pushing for this
in a consistent way. 

So it has been a back-burner idea. Perhaps now is the time to put Wikipeople
through the same process Wikinews went through to be established - that would
show if the Wikimedia community is ready for the idea. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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