The proposed project, Wikifiction, would collect a lot of information about existing fictional material. It should not collect fanfiction or original fictional material, which would be disallowed by the proposed project.
Unlike Wikia, Wikifiction would be ad-free and easier to load.
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifiction_%28In- universe_encyclopedia%29
Hoi, What is the point? What is educational in this? Thanks, GerardM
On 10 May 2017 at 07:28, George Ho gho2timer@gmail.com wrote:
The proposed project, Wikifiction, would collect a lot of information about existing fictional material. It should not collect fanfiction or original fictional material, which would be disallowed by the proposed project.
Unlike Wikia, Wikifiction would be ad-free and easier to load.
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifiction_%28In- universe_encyclopedia%29 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
It looks like discussion on this died out years ago; a user has recently removed the rejected tag citing "discussion" (I'm not sure where), but it looks like this particular idea ran out of steam long ago.
Cheers, Craig
On 10 May 2017 at 15:28, George Ho gho2timer@gmail.com wrote:
The proposed project, Wikifiction, would collect a lot of information about existing fictional material. It should not collect fanfiction or original fictional material, which would be disallowed by the proposed project.
Unlike Wikia, Wikifiction would be ad-free and easier to load.
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifiction_%28In- universe_encyclopedia%29 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Non-broken link for the lazy:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifiction_%28In-universe_encyclopedia%29
My inner child/nerd is of course wishing to have a single, unified wiki resource for all discussion of all fiction, but I fail to see
a) Why it would be different from either a standard, well-written Wikipedia article, or b) Why it would be different from having an article on its own Wikia fandom wiki
The proposal is, and I quote, *a detailed in-universe encyclopedia of fictional works, characters, places, and objects*. If I understand it correctly, this means having a sort of Encyclopaedia Galactica (or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe) for every fictional universe in a single wiki. This is, in essence, the same as having a regular Wikipedia article without the explicit legend of "___ is a fictional character in _____ work" and a "fictional biography" section.
The validity of The Tommy Westphall Hypothesis and its impact on this proposed project are left as an exercise to the reader
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
It looks like discussion on this died out years ago; a user has recently removed the rejected tag citing "discussion" (I'm not sure where), but it looks like this particular idea ran out of steam long ago.
Cheers, Craig
On 10 May 2017 at 15:28, George Ho gho2timer@gmail.com wrote:
The proposed project, Wikifiction, would collect a lot of information
about
existing fictional material. It should not collect fanfiction or original fictional material, which would be disallowed by the proposed project.
Unlike Wikia, Wikifiction would be ad-free and easier to load.
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