The Wikidocumentaries project is planning to create a wiki that will have
articles about microhistory - places and people. The article topics will be
created based on entries in Wikidata, and the content will be mashed up
from content in Wikimedia projects and other open repositories. The content
would be enriched with additional, more personal material that is not
suited for Wikimedia projects. Whenever suitable, the wiki would also work
the other way, providing data and content to Wikimedia projects.
The wiki itself is going to be a hub for citizen history, offering tools to
work with documents (transcription, identification, georeferencing etc) and
user generated remixes (storymaps, slideshows etc.).
I am willing to open this idea for discussion and ask your advice. I would
like to know if you have experiences with Semantic MediaWiki to evaluate if
it is suitable for being the database for indexing linked content, or how
would Wikibase play out.
The project is being prepared by a small working group and a group of
Finnish project partners. There's not much to link to yet, but I will be
happy to tell as much more as is possible.
Best,
Susanna Ånäs