[Wikipedia-l] possible explanation for Spanish 'pedia fork; plus some thoughts...

Tue Jul 9 21:07:48 UTC 2002

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:56:16PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> 
> We should consider doing some strategizing to make
> sure another fork doesn’t happen (I hear members of
> the French wikipedia threatened a fork in the past).

Is that really such a big problem? I know it wastes effort but we can still
copy articles from them and vice versa, right? But does our license then
force them to put a link on every article that they have copied from the
original site?

-- Jan Hidders