Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-09-19/Sister projects

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Timeshifter in topic Discuss this story

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I have had nothing but unpleasant expediences with TechEssentials, and find several members of their staff, including their leadership, both unethical and untrustworthy. I have witnessed firsthand several members of TE interfering in an ArbCom investigation, and been threatened by one of them over the IRC. While I wish OpenGlobe itself success, I find their choice of hosts to be distressing, and I personally will not create an OpenGlobe account because the thought of TE staff having access to my personal information would keep me up at night. Sven Manguard Wha? 09:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

It looks like OpenGlobe has followed Jimmy Wales advice in part. See: Wikipedia:Advertisements#Wikiversity, Wikinews, etc. as semi-for-profit Benefit Corporations using ads. I see that OpenGlobe has ads. I don't see a problem with that if OpenGlobe is either non-profit or a Benefit Corporation in structure. They now have the independence, and maybe the funds, to do some more things. --Timeshifter (talk) 09:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Just for the record: TechEssentials is currently an unregistered nonprofit organization. — Kudu ~I/O~ 21:57, 20 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
There is some discussion here:
http://theopenglobe.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#OpenGlobe_organizational_structure --Timeshifter (talk) 06:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

I tried to do an article on Wikinews once. It was there, and then it was gone. Not sure what happened, but I think they have rules kinda like DYK mixed with FA, which isn't easy for newbies. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 04:23, 21 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Perhaps this needed to be done to draw attention to the sister projects. But Wikipedia has demonstrated that "only one will remain"; and a small project splitting just changes "tiny" to "invisible". I wish those project the best, but I will be surprised if they gain any significant amount of visibility on the web. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:38, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
There are some popular sites using MediaWiki software (the wiki software used by Wikipedia). Wikia is very popular. Wikitravel is doing alright. Also, WikiLeaks and WikiHow. See Category:MediaWiki websites. Few sites though, whether Mediawiki-based or not, will ever be as popular as Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the top ten sites on the web as far as page views are concerned. --Timeshifter (talk) 10:04, 23 September 2011 (UTC)Reply