On 3/25/06, Benjamin Webb
<bjwebb67(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I'd noticed that you'd menationed the
specialised software on
wikitree.org,
I'd just be intereseted to know what you think about the specialised
software of Rodovid <http://rodovid.org> and what you, as someone high up
the the foundation, think about it becoming a foundation project.
That looks good too, and I've no opinion on whether Rodovid or
Wikitree is using a better approach. Perhaps there are aspects of each
that should be included. I'm also wondering whether Wikidata will fit
into this somehow, or whether the structure you're using on Rodovid
replaces that.
The last time a genealogy wiki was seriously proposed as a Wikimedia
project, there was little interest, and few answers to the questions I
asked at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipeople>. What
software to use and what to do with the Sep11 wiki still need to be
addressed. However, it is one of the proposals that comes up most
often, so perhaps there is interest there, certainly from editors, but
is there enough interest from developers to give this project the
software changes it would need?
The software Benjamin has written himself looks quite solid and reasonably feature
complete to me. I
don't see why he would need to attract interest from developers when he's
obviously quite a
proficient one himself. Wikimedia could certainly benefit from Benjamin's expertise,
if we could win
him over, but I'm not sure what benefit Benjamin expects to derive from Wikimedia.
Whether or not
this is a Wikimedia project, Benjamin will have to do most of the development and
promotion himself.
Hosting costs should be small during startup, easily covered by donations. If he can
avoid
Wikimedia's bureaucracy and run the project himself, why not do so?
-- Tim Starling