/me is trying not to think about how Erik just promoted his own website
In any case, I thought a while back that if Wikia had all these wikis, then
all the unsourced highly specific details could be exiled to these wikis. It
sounded like a good idea.
On 11/13/06, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 11/13/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It occurs to me that many fictional worlds have
superb wikis devoted
to them over in Wikia. These Wikis are often doing exactly what we're
trying to avoid doing in Wikipedia - providing large amounts of in-
universe information.
True. Wikimedia is also strongly committed to free content, and so is
Wikia. But so are other wikis which are not hosted on Wikia, such as
Wikitravel. It would be unfair to prefer Wikia specifically. However,
it would make sense, in my opinion, to build a network of free content
websites. Fortunately there's already a definition we can use to
identify those:
http://freecontentdefinition.org/Definition
Essentially, we could make a policy that any relevant external
resource that meets the Free Content Definition may be linked in a
more visible place than non-free resource. Going a bit beyond free
licensing, we could also require that the site at least make complete
dumps available on a regular basis, to enable community migration.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
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