--- "Poe, Marshall" MPoe@theatlantic.com wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Mav.
In my conception (hardly original or final), Wikimemory would focus on common, significant, historical *experiences* rather than the individuals. The top level categories in Wikimemory would, then, be historical experiences: "The Vietnam War," "The Cultural Revolution," "Encounters with Jimmy Carter," "The Red Sox winning the World Series," "The Beatles Final Concert," "Hurricane Katrina" and so on. Pretty much anything with a witness, a place, a date and a bit of significance to "your community" (very broadly defined) would fit.
Both Wikipeople and (to a lesser extent) Wikimemorial seem focused on individuals, and that seems to me to be a separate, important kind of information. Does that make sense?
Well the idea is to also focus on events where lots of people died. Not unlike what the Sep11wiki was supposed to be but not focused on any one event.
That would cover at least part of what you´d like to do with Wikimemory. I´m just not sure if there would be enough overlap to merge the proposals or not.
-- mav
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