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@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.
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:43:41 +0000, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@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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