[Foundation-l] New project proposal - Wikibuilder

[Christiaan Briggs]

Yeah "Wikilabs", that's sounds better.

On 19 Jan 2005, at 12:04 pm, Robin Shannon wrote:

> like google labs, only wikilabs? a place to put all our crazy dreams...
> sounds like a good idea.
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:56:58 +0000, Christiaan Briggs
> <christiaan at last-straw.net> wrote:
>> I'm sympathetic to this view but the corollary is that a special
>> Wikimedia project (i.e. not buried in Wikibooks) would encourage
>> interest in an area where, comparatively speaking, you don't have a
>> natural base of editors. Compare say the amount of builders, 
>> architects
>> and musicians to the number of mathematicians and programmers. It's a
>> systemic bias issue.
>>
>> I would rather see such new projects *that have recognised potential
>> and a good plan* given a prominent domain space such as:
>> beta.wikimedia.org/Wikibuilder
>> or beta.wikibuilder.org
>> ..and advertised along side Wikisource, Wikispecies and other 
>> Wikimedia
>> projects under a Wikibetas heading or something.
>>
>> I think this is especially pertinent to projects that may need special
>> code to reach their true potential, such as presenting music notation
>> in Wikiscores or previews of 2D and 3D CAD files in Wikibuilder.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On 19 Jan 2005, at 4:25 am, Sj wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to see the process for creating new factual/specialist
>>> Wikimedia projects include a stage at whic hthe new project is a
>>> Wikibook, which serves as a demonstration of what project content 
>>> will
>>> include (and a rough topic mesh for the project), proof of interest 
>>> in
>>> the project, and a source of inspiration to new project contributors.
>>>
>>> After this initial overview book could come full-fledged project
>>> development.
>>>
>>> +sj+
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:43:41 +0000, Christiaan Briggs
>>> <christiaan at last-straw.net> wrote:
>>>> Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can't it be a part of Wikibooks?
>>>>
>>>> It could, but then so could all the Wikimedia projects. I'm not sure
>>>> it
>>>> would suit Wikibooks. I see this as a "commons" project covering the
>>>> design and construction of the built environment *in its entirety* 
>>>> in
>>>> all languages. Plus the prominence of being a separate Wikimedia
>>>> project will help in attracting builders and designers. It may even
>>>> need special code introduced into MediaWiki to deal with
>>>> presenting/previewing up-and-coming 2D and 3D file formats, etc.
>>>>
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