On 2013-04-24 1:34 AM, <hungers.to.nurture(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am wishing to propose a project that needs Wikipedia and I discussed
about it a
little on IRC.
I wish to know that Wikimedia will not consider any Wikipedia related
project as
idea’s page says or if somehow I am able to demonstrate that I
will be able to complete it in summer they can consider it then.
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Its kind of hard to give a full response as your mail did not include
details of what you are proposing (and im too lazy to go digging through
the irc logs)
In general though: convincing wikipedians that something is a good idea is
like hearding cats-it can be difficult. Thus projects that would be useful
to a wide variaty of wikis are preferred. If after all is said and done
wikipedia ends up not liking the results then someone else may use it.
Something usable by many wikis may also solve a more generic problem and be
more generally useful. The last thing we want is for someone to do a
project and their target audiance respond with "why would anyone want such
a thing"
There have been succesful projects from previous years that targetted a
specific project - for example one year someone made a bot to import legal
judgements into wikisource. If you are doing such a project I think the key
point is to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the community in
question actually wants your project. This will probably be hard to do
unless you are already a member of the community in question.
-bawolff