[Wikipedia-l] No new wikis

Fri Jul 18 22:10:34 UTC 2003

Erik Moeller wrote:

>
>I propose that
>1) we do not start any new Wiki spin-off projects until our current  
>resources have been substantially expanded;
>2) we formalize a process for starting such projects, e.g. a planning  
>period of at least 3 months on Meta with exact specifications as to what  
>is to be placed there. After this period, users on the Meta wiki should  
>vote on whether the new wiki should be set up or not. 3 months may seem  
>long, but if interest can't be kept up that long, the idea may not be so  
>great after all.
>
Seconded.

>Otherwise I see the danger that we'll end up with lots of nice ideas that  
>all go nowhere, like the sep11.wikipedia.org (which IMHO should never have  
>been set up in the first place).
>
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basically... Sep11,wikipedia.org was created to appease people 
protesting against the deletion of acticles on victims of the Sep11 
attacks who were pure nobodies and didn't belong in Wikipedia.