Quoting Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com:
--- Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3@msstate.edu wrote:
Quoting Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com:
I've already proposed that at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimorial .
The idea is to simply expand the focus of the the Sep11wiki (which is a rather lonely place).
The only major stumbling block was the name - some people didn't like 'Wikimorial'. Other ideas were: *Wikimedia Memorial (generic and boring, IMO), *Wikipeople (I liked this one so I bought the domain names), *Wikifamily (another one I liked - although in the U.S. right-wing
Christian
fundamentalists have co-opted the word "family").
Well, I guess I missed that one. It sounds like our end goal is the same,
but
for different reasons. Your description and name (Wikimorial) implies a memorial/obituary/mourning project, more than a living global genealogy.
But
perhaps this is not the case?
It would be both. There would be individual pages on individual people and there also would be memorial pages that list people who died in some disaster/military assault/terrorist act/industrial accident/whatever. The "memorial"-type names were just an emphasis on that aspect.
I would also like to see actual family trees constructed on family name pages. There is a wiki syntax to do this that is being developed.
It sounds like this is worth pursuing. Shall I continue to discuss this here, or go over to the wiki page?
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