QUOTE(John Limey @ Thu 18th March 2010, 1:29am)
QUOTE(NotARepublican55 @ Thu 18th March 2010, 12:52am)
Has anyone thought of doing a complete import of Wikipedia's content to another Wiki site and starting with a clean batch of editors?
If the content on Wikipedia is good enough to justify forking to another site, then what's the problem?
Exactly. To clean up a fork, you have to do almost as much work as just starting from scratch yourself.
Plus, as was discovered early on by Citizendium, the whole Wikipedia template system makes it incredibly hard to fork individual articles. You're really much better off starting from scratch. At the most you could use Wikipedia as a reference, to find other sources, but IMO even that isn't a great idea, because one of the biggest problems with Wikipedia articles is what's *not* there.
See also:
How To Read Wikipedia