[Foundation-l] Wikipecies charter

Sun Dec 4 18:48:12 UTC 2011

On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Charter was created in
> September 2004‎ with:
>
> ---
> As quoted from Jimbo Wales:
>
> "As you know, the creation of this project was somewhat controversial
> in some quarters, and so I propose an early development of a strong
> non-forking policy guideline here, illustrating how wikispecies
> significantly differs from articles that would appear in a general
> encyclopedia.
>
> Here are some of the key points that the board put forward when we
> approved this project:
>
> We set up the WikiSpecies wiki for biologists to begin organizing the project.
>
> We propose that as the software is developed, it should work to
> strongly support integration with wikipedia, to help avoid duplication
> of effort, i.e. to avoid forking.
>
> We ask the participants on wikispecies to particularly think about how
> their work should differ from a generalist encyclopedia."
> ---
>
> Does anyone know where this Jimmy quote comes from?  I presume it is
> after the WMF board meeting on 5 September 2004 as it quotes from it
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/September_5,_2004
> (created 26 September 2004‎)
>
> I think the Wiki "charter" needs to be made a bit more .. err .. like
> a charter.  It is linked to from the Wikispecies about page
>
> https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:About
>

Very likely out of the board meeting indeed.
Chance is that this was followed by an announcement on the mailing list 
by Jimbo. Did you take a look at mailing list archives ?

Florence