[OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 11:31:48 BST 2010


wikia.com is an example of a wiki fork project. and it looks to be doing fine :)
I like it as it hosts my acrosscanadatrails.wikia.com website.


Its outside of wikipeda, and it's facebook integrated.


wikimapia is also a fork project, and it's doing great.  It has a
function and surves a purpose.


and as Brendan mentioned. The 'Average User will always be the average
user' :) .... so it's up to us to make a great place for people to
have something that keeps people interested, and serves a function.


The entire Geospatial-everything Community as a whole is BIG and there
certainly is room for many maps, of many kinds. ... and they all are
good, and they all serve their unique purpose.




cheers,
sam

On 10/2/10, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/02/2010 02:45 AM, Dave F. wrote:
>>> With the various forks that could/are taking place within OSM I'm
>>> curious if there are any other examples?
>>
>> Wikipedia has a catalogue of forks, unfortunately mixed with mirrors:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks
>>
>> (I particularly like
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#The_Mcfly
>> _Network.)
>>
>> There *must* have been some forking action when Wikipedia changed
>> their license from GFDL to CC-BY-SA I'm sure but I cannot find
>> documentation on that.
>
> No fork that I know of due to license change, at least nothing serious
> that I heard about.
>
> In 2002, the Spanish Wikipedia forked and people went to the other
> project. The fork had to do with differences of project policies not
> license, the fork died few years later.  Spanish Wikipedia grew more
> slowly as a result
>
> There's also citizendium, not really a fork at all but different and
> unsuccessful way of having articles reviewed and vetted.
>
> There is some debate about licenses among some of our more prolific
> and talented photographers. The GFDL license gives photographers more
> opportunity to make some $$ from their works as some book publishers
> rather not adhere to GFDL and don't mind paying for use of a good
> photograph found on Wikipedia.
>
> Katie
>
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
>>
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