Re: Random question about es.wikipedia.org

On Dec 12, 2003, at 19:40, Timwi wrote:
> around August, word on the street was that there was a fork-off 
> project, enciclopedia-libre or something?, of the Spanish Wikipedia, 
> that was advancing at a steadier pace than the Spanish Wikipedia.

Enciclopedia Libre: http://enciclopedia.us.es/

Forked in early 2002 when Wikipedia was still directly under Bomis, 
Larry Sanger was the salaried editor-in-chief for Nupedia and 
Wikipedia, and there were public musings about putting ad banners on 
the English Wikipedia to recoup costs.

Ad talk was shelved, Larry resigned and moved to other things, and 
we're theoretically under a benevolent non-profit dictatorship instead 
of a benevolent for-profit one. ;)

EL has had server problems at times and they've been talking about 
switching to the current version of our software, but their admin is 
(like us) overloaded and it hasn't gotten done yet. Re-merging talk 
happens here and there, but I'm not up on the details. They're both 
under GFDL license and things get copied back and forth from time to 
time, iirc.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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