Wikiversity talk:Forking proposal

Do we need a forking mechanism?
I'm not sure where a fork would be useful. Wouldn't it be better to encourage projects to develop resources that could be shared between them. In the case of two projects history of particle physics and applied particle physics they would just refer to the pages in the other project where appropriate. This can be done either with links or if the text was useful and editable include like  .

If it was decided that their were actual cases where a fork was needed an alternative approach might be to ask that includes such as   also copies the edit history into the new page. This would make creating forks relatively trivial (maybe a bad thing) I'm not sure how much of a rewrite of the wikimedia code would be needed to enable this. Mystictim 00:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It's hard to say. It might be just as easy to share, but in some cases it might not be... this would be a helpful tool for when it's not so easy. See Disclosures for some older discussions of how different learning projects might be based on the same materials, yet need to split them off a bit. The subst: might not always be appropriate (in fact it would limit the freedom of the two projects to develop independently if they always needed to "compromise" between the two approaches).


 * This doesn't require any changes to mediawiki software... the tools are already there. --SB_Johnny | talk 12:11, 16 January 2007 (UTC)