Re: [Bug-gnupedia] The path to peace

[Imran Ghory]

On 24 Jan 2001, at 18:20, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Please keep in mind that this 'split' was all the result of 
> an accident in the first place.  Simply imagine that you 
> heard (as you would have, had some wires not been crossed)
> of Nupedia, a fully free project looking for volunteers.

I did, I found Nupedia a few weeks before Gnupedia was announced 
(incidently I found it while researching a question which I was 
planning to post to "Ask Slashdot" regarding the lack of GPLed 
reference software(encyclopedias, atlases, family tree 
software,etc.)) and found it lacked the "feel" I would expect from a 
free encyclopedia.

> We're here, and we're ready, and we are at ground zero for
> YOU to come in and do things YOUR WAY, _at Nupedia_.
> 
> Nupedia currently has in place over 3,000 volunteers working
> very hard at creating and editing content.  We have systems
> in place which can and SHOULD BE replaced.  

But that time is not now, keep Nupedia developing on the track it is 
going along now, and at a later time when Gnupedia has the 
software base and Nupedia the content base the two could merge 
both complementing each others resources.

If they would merge now we may loose a lot of the content 
developers as we'd be moving into a alpha software project which is 
not the best time to introduce users.

Imran Ghory