Dear folks at Wikimedia, Thank you for existing! You are responsible for the encyclopedia I use every time I need an encyclopedia! So, you publish an encyclopedia (Wikipedia), a dictionary (Wiktionary), an archive of news articles (Wikinews), online classes (Wikiversity), online textbooks (Wikibooks), online non-educational books (Wikisource), lists of quotes by people or shows or whatever (Wikiquote), an encyclopedia of living things (Wiki Species), a meta-wiki that no one knows the reason for (Meta), a place where all files on the wikis are placed (The Commons), and a site I don't know why the deuce it exists (The Wikimedia incubator). I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects :-)
WP contains many of the essential elements of an almanac already, and could very easily cover all the rest-- it doesn't take a new project, just a relaxation of some of the self-imposed strictures. Relaxing, without eliminating , NOT NEWS , NOT DIRECTORY, and NOT INDISCRIMINATE . there's only one point that would need actual removal: NOT INDISCRIMINATE point 3, Excessive listing of statistics.
The basic change could be accomplished by doing just that one deletion--there is not need for another project, or even another space for data.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That
would be neat, a wiki almanac.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects :-)
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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I wonder which would be harder, trying to start the first new project in years, or trying to get the English Wikipedia to make a significant policy change?
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
WP contains many of the essential elements of an almanac already, and could very easily cover all the rest-- it doesn't take a new project, just a
For Pharos, there is also the Atlas project on Commons already -- one of my favorite projects that not many people seem to know about. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas
For an almanac, I wonder if we could carve out space within Wikipedia in the same way -- the almanac portal? A lot of the relevant data is already present.
For new projects in general... heh, we should start a pool for which is more likely, policy changes or new projects. Inertia Sweepstakes!
-- phoebe, who is not snowed in but also overslept :)
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects :-)
Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap ("The Free Wiki World Map") have gone a long way in this direction, and you probably want to check their project out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Here's a great recent feature from the BBC about 'The volunteer mappers who helped Haiti':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8517057.stm
Thanks, Pharos
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki
Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap ("The Free Wiki World Map") have gone a long way in this direction, and you probably want to check their project out.
You've baffled me there. What's the overlap between a map and an almanac?
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki
Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap ("The Free Wiki World Map") have gone a long way in this direction, and you probably want to check their project out.
You've baffled me there. What's the overlap between a map and an almanac?
If one has just gotten up after oversleeping on a snowed-in Saturday morning, the distinction between "atlas" and almanac" tends to get blurred :)
Still, OpenStreetMap is a fantastic project, I wonder if they would like to join the Wikimedia family one day.
Thanks, Pharos
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Hoi, The OSM localisation at translatewiki.net started today .. When the NGO's go home there will be a living project when the people can use it themselves :) Thanks, GerardM
PS what is the status of the integration of OSM and Wikimedia ????
On 27 February 2010 18:42, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net
wrote:
I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys?
That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects :-)
Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap ("The Free Wiki World Map") have gone a long way in this direction, and you probably want to check their project out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Here's a great recent feature from the BBC about 'The volunteer mappers who helped Haiti':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8517057.stm
Thanks, Pharos
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
Dear folks at Wikimedia, Thank you for existing! You are responsible for the encyclopedia I use every time I need an encyclopedia! So, you publish an encyclopedia (Wikipedia), a dictionary (Wiktionary), an archive of news articles (Wikinews), online classes (Wikiversity), online textbooks (Wikibooks), online non-educational books (Wikisource), lists of quotes by people or shows or whatever (Wikiquote), an encyclopedia of living things (Wiki Species), a meta-wiki that no one knows the reason for (Meta), a place where all files on the wikis are placed (The Commons), and a site I don't know why the deuce it exists (The Wikimedia incubator). I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinac
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