Wikispecies (was: Re: [Foundation-l] New project licensing)

Thu Aug 25 12:43:08 UTC 2005

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Daniel Mayer wrote:

> Wikipedia (which aims to have articles on every genus on earth and
> articles on every living thing for which more than a stub can be written about)
> and the ill-conceived and poorly-executed fork of that at Wikispecies (a
> project that is nearly as embarrassing as the Sep11wiki).

I disagree; Sep11wiki is merely useless, a set of Wikipedia-like
articles that are neither appropriate nor worth-while for an
encyclopædia. Wikispecies, on the other hand, is actively damaging to
the activities of Wikipedia, being as it is an insider fork, taking away
contributors and putting back, well, nothing. I was very disappointed in
its creation, to say the least; I feel it was a ghastly mistake.

Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail    : james at jdforrester.org
IM (MSN)  : jamesdforrester at hotmail.com
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