>Or would you have a fork in which the only articles actually present were ones that you had edited, and all others produced a redirect to Wikipedia with an int

>Or would you have a fork in which the only articles actually present were ones that you had edited, and all others produced a redirect to Wikipedia with an interstitial message indicating that you hadn't had any opportunity to review that content? Something along those lines, the work is kind of the point. Maintaining a coherent but alternative worldview on your own is a gruesome task, the more neatly it fits into the global consensus, the easier it is going to be to maintain, allowing for radical ideas which are nonetheless consistent with f.e. our laws of physics would be much easier than trying connect free energy to the laws of thermodynamics.