Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Where does livecode.wikia.com come from?
It's a "semi-friendly" fork of the LC docs managed by a fella who goes by "MaxV" in the forums.
It's certainly not at all "unfriendly" (such as some of the more hostile forks we see in the Wordpress world). On the contrary, he's shown great dedication to providing current docs with enhanced content. His work is excellent, his intentions good, his timeliness exemplary.
Normally a "friendly" fork is one in which someone wants to take a project in a new direction, and in discussion with the core team they agree that each has a different vision and the proposed enhancements would be unsuited for the main project, so a fork lets the new dev scratch his own itch without interference. The GPL welcomes such diversity.
In this case I use "semi-friendly" only to note that I've seen nothing in Max's excellent work which wouldn't be welcome in LiveCode, but by posting at a separate site rather than upstream at Github the main branch cannot include those enhancements, so the value of his good efforts is lost to most LiveCode users.
Max would be one of the shining stars of the LC docs project if he would consider submitting his excellent content refinements to the main branch at Github so they become part of the standard docs set.
As it is, we have fragmentation and duplicated effort. Still useful, but less so than sharing in the place set up for that.
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