On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If we are just throwing out random ideas...
I've long wanted to see an open source project to create a world
family tree, i.e. document the ancestry and connections between
everyone ever. There are a couple high profile closed source / fee
based projects aiming to do this, but no successful projects that
really have open access as part of their foundation. Even if we
limited such a project to just deceased individuals (as the big
projects usually do) it would still be a massive undertaking and
potentially very useful for researchers.
However, while a wiki could work, it would be a suboptimal approach.
Much like wikispecies, genealogical information has a heavy component
of structured data that could benefit from dedicated tools designed
for that data. As has been suggested elsewhere, it seems that most of
the things that can be easily done by a wiki are already being done
either by us or by Wikia and similar third parties.
Robert,
Are you familiar with Rodovid ?
It has been mentioned in this thread by Yann, and is the top project
mentioned here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rodovid
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John Vandenberg