[long] Enciclopedia Libre

Hello,

On February 26, 2002. The Spanish contributrors
forked and made a seperate Spanish Encyclopeida, 
located it now in a Spanish University. They called 
it Enciclopedia Libre (EL)

Now, Juanan, is installing the new software  (Wikipedia3)
on a new server. Within, some days, he will have the work
done.

They still want a sperate project for the sake of freedom,
diversity and decentralization.

Do they need us ? Do they lose something for not being 
on es.wikipedia.org (ES)? I thing they do not.

*Participants: they have much more participants than ES.
A lot of participants have left ES for EL because it was 
more active. On ES they are only 2 or 3 participants and 
some participants contributing on more than one wiki.

*Articles: it is very easy for them to check the dozen of 
daily edits on ES and to copy or modify EL articles according
to them.

Do we need EL ? We need EL.

*Articles: they have more articles, it is not easy to copy
all articles from EL, at least without a bot.
*Participants: 
**when there is nobody, people tend to leave.
**when there is more people on another project, people go to the
pther project, and so on.


What can we do ?

*A bot for copying articles ? I do not like much that idea 
because it is not easy to implement and it is not very fair.

*Links to EL. We can add a new code for interlinguals links, there
already exists links [[fr:XX]], [[en:XX]], why not 
[[EnciclopediaLibre:XX]] (or something shorter)


I think, if Juanan install the new software and enables links 
to all wikipedia languages, we should also make links to EL in some 
ways.

My conclusion. They do not need Wikipedia : I mean the Wikipedia server,
contributors on ES, ... They also do not want to go back to Wikipedia.
If we want to have a good Spanish articles, we should colaborate with them.
Why not making es.wikipedia.org a redirection to enciclopedia.us.es 
and making backups of EL ? 

I want to have a good Spanish enciclopedia, I do not care where it is 
located if it is free and has links to other languages. 

I think 

Regards,

Youssef