[Foundation-l] When is a Wikipedia not a Wikipedia ?

Mon Apr 14 11:40:11 UTC 2008

I would say no based on my own instinct, but I have an even greater
instinct to rely on democracy, as long as it does not infringe on the
fundamental rights of anybody... so if they want it, let them have it.

Mark

On 14/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you go from one Wikipedia <http://wikipedia.org/> to the next, you
>  always expect an encyclopaedia. You expect things to be largely the same but
>  in a different language. According to Bugzilla bug
>  13578<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13578>,
>  this is something that will change. The Alemannic community have found that
>  having a Wikipedia, a Wikibooks, a Wiktionary and a Wikiquote is more then
>  they can chew off.
>
>  What the Alemannic community has decided is to fold all the projects into
>  their Wikipedia and have separate name spaces for the content of their old
>  projects.  Their communities seem to have
>  decided<http://draft.blogger.com/:als:Wikipedia:Treffen_der_Wikipedianer/Sommertreffen_2007/Protokoll#Andri_alemannischi_Proj.C3.A4kt>on
>  this, they want their name spaces now or they will move all their
>  content
>  into the Wikipedia name space.
>
>  What I wonder is if this is something that the wider community is aware off
>  and, if this is considered to be acceptable. When such major changes are
>  going to happen, it makes sense to include the change to the more
>  appropriate gsw language tag.
>  Thanks,
>      GerardM
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