--- "Poe, Marshall" MPoe@theatlantic.com wrote:

Dear Friends:

I've proposed a new wiki--Wikimemory (or Wikimemoir, or IWasThereWiki, or something better). It's logged in the Meta section on new proposals. Here's the pitch:

The idea is to provide a place where anyone can record his or her memoirs of historically significant events. Most everyone has participated in such occurrences. Take, for example, the hundreds of thousands who were affected the recent tragedy in New Orleans. Unfortunately, there is no repository for the storage of the memories of such people. Their experiences can neither be shared with others today (I, for one, would like to read first-hand accounts of the New Orleans floods), and they will be lost to history tomorrow. In ten, one hundred or one thousand years, the memoirs of those "who were there" will be very valuable. Wikimemory will, I hope, allow people all over the world to record their experiences, share them with others, and pass them to the future. I've created a mock-up of the site at http://memoirbank.com/.

A nice tag line for the site: "Everyone has a story. Make yours history."

I'd love to hear what you think.

Interesting idea. Recording personal experiences from historically significant events could be rolled into the genealogy and memorial project idea known as Wikimorial/Wikipeople. Basically, the idea is to create entries on people (yep - any person) and have those organized in family trees and event-specific memorials where appropriate. To be really effective though, the WikiData extension of the MediaWiki software needs to exist first.

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipeople http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimorial

-- mav

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