[Foundation-l] Re: Wikijunior - Wikispecies, Mk 2?

Wed Oct 27 19:22:18 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:

> Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>
>> I think we need to be a lot more careful with terminology.  Not every
>> new thing is a "fork".
>
> Well, insofar as it's a fork of the community's development effort---a 
> diversion of work that would otherwise go into one of the other 
> projects---it could be considered such.  Whether that's the case is 
> arguable, of course.

It seems that four letter words beginning with "f" and ending with "k" 
have managed to pick up subjective baggage in their travels.  Yes, we 
need to be more careful with terminology, but it seems that the word in 
question has lost its power, and a "f***" is no longer as evil as it 
once was.

Ec