On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:55:47 +0100, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > [posted to foundation-l and wikitech-l, thread fork of a discussion > elsewhere] > > > THESIS: Our inadvertent monopoly is *bad*. We need to make it easy to > fork the projects, so as to preserve them. > > This is the single point of failure problem. The reasons for it having > happened are obvious, but it's still a problem. Blog posts (please > excuse me linking these yet again): > > * http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/10/disaster-recovery-planning/ > * http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/19/single-point-of-failure/ > > I dream of the encyclopedia being meaningfully backed up. This will > require technical attention specifically to making the projects - > particularly that huge encyclopedia in English - meaningfully > forkable. >
I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case, is a bad thing, but I do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the best way to create competition. As far as I am concerned, the only real competition to us comes from Chinese projects like Baidu, and not from many Wikipedia-like forks or not even from Google Knol. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
