[WikiEN-l] Re: How to bring back people who don't want to bother?

Wed Jan 11 16:51:01 UTC 2006

On 1/11/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sam Korn wrote:
> >We should *encourage* the creation of forks, so long as they have a
> >compatible licence.
> I'm speaking of a particular reason for a fork. Are you saying you
> think the current example, and the image of Wikipedia that's the
> reason for it, is a *good* thing?

No, we should encourage forks in a different way.  We should encourage
the creation of forks with the specific intention of having the
content merged into Wikipedia when it is of better quality and
therefore less likely to be deleted.

> >Then we can merge them
> >back in and hopefully restore our image within the specialist
> >communities.
>
>
> That's a good idea, but ...

If your point is that it's impractical, we should damn well *make* it practical.

> >A little more assumption of good faith and preparedness
> >to admit to being wrong on AfD would also help.
>
>
> Go reread (or read) the evidence in the webcomics case. Note the
> direct assumptions of bad faith on the part of subject experts saying
> to AFD "actually, you're wrong on this one." They didn't start out
> having no faith in AFD's good will.
>
> Funnily enough, many people when confronted with utter blithering
> stupidity will go so far as to say out loud "that's blithering
> stupidity."

I'm talking about both sides.  However, it is easier to deal with
people acting in bad faith when you're not acting in bad faith
yourself.

--
Sam