On 1/11/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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