[WikiEN-l] Unnecessary fork update

Mon Jan 16 21:26:52 UTC 2006

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like the doll-collector's wiki is saying "bugger Wikipedia" and
> picking a CC license specifically to maintain incompatibility -
> they've been put off the idea of Wikipedia *that badly*.

I haven't really been following this, but are you sure they felt the need to
fork because of AfD? I ask, because there's a variety of reasons that people
feel the need to start their own specialist-subject wiki. Someone recently
started "CryptoDox" (http://www.cryptodox.com/), a encyclopedia of
cryptography, using MediaWiki, licensed under cc by-nc-sa. Exactly the same
goals, it seems, as the Wikipedia Cryptography Project.

I asked him why he didn't want to do it on Wikipedia. He replied, rather
cryptically (pun not intended): 

"You are right in saying "Why not Wikipedia?". But this does not mean that
others are not free to try out endeavours of their own. Wikipedia is
undoubtedly an outstanding project which is growing at a tremendous pace and
will surely continue to do so."

"That is exactly how I would like to see CryptoDox become one day....but with
just one particular domain in mind....cryptography. Can't this be done in
Wikipedia? Yes! It can be done there. No doubts. But I want to see how a site
dedicated to a particular domain does over time."

A little perplexing, but he doesn't seem to be an embittered AfD veteran.

-- Matt

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com

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