Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/25/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote: It's a genealogy site. The main page says: "One of the main aims of the WikiTree Project is to provide a central place on the Internet for kin information about all people we know ever lived, automatically construct bloodline trees, and watch the gradual emergence of global family forest of humanity."
Neat - we have a project proposal for that called 'Wikipeople'.
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipeople
A merger of the above proposal with Wikitree may eventually be in order. But an NC license is a no-starter for me.
-- mav
You might also want to look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects/inactive#Wikitree
The person who started the project originally wanted to do it as a Wikimedia project, but figured it would get much more success doing it on their own. As far as licensing issues are concerned, there is a major thread on the topic at:
http://wikitree.org/index.php?title=WikiTree:Treehouse#Licensing
Including some comments by people who are critics of the Free Software Foundation and the GFDL in particular that should get some note. I think the NC license was a mistake for that site, and it is a show stopper for me as well to do major contributions. I do like, however, some of the MediaWiki software changes they have done to make it work better with geneological data.