I have suggested a new project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki . Please have a look.
In short, the wiki has information on any person or organisation on the planet. The page explains this concept in more detail.
Types of information include: contact, biographical, genealogical, corporate, etc.
Strict attention is paid to data-protection laws, so very strong emphasis is placed on citing sources and verifiability, although legitimate sources are slightly more lax than Wikipedia (e.g. a home website is a good source for a person's contact information). Vandalism through attacks, and personal vanity, are kept strictly in check just like on Wikipedia.
*Any* person or organisation may have a page as anyone may be of interest to someone else; and the wiki is interested in demographics, a global documentation of individuals.
Tell me what you think!
Virgil Ierubino wrote:
I have suggested a new project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki . Please have a look.
In short, the wiki has information on any person or organisation on the planet. The page explains this concept in more detail.
Wayyyyyyyyy outside Wikimedia's goals and functional area.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:37:33 +0100 Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Virgil Ierubino wrote:
I have suggested a new project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki . Please have a look.
In short, the wiki has information on any person or organisation on the planet. The page explains this concept in more detail.
Wayyyyyyyyy outside Wikimedia's goals and functional area.
Could you provide us with a quote to elaborate on your exclamation?
Halvor
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On 05/11/06, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
I have suggested a new project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki . Please have a look.
In short, the wiki has information on any person or organisation on the planet. The page explains this concept in more detail.
...
Tell me what you think!
"Wikistalk" for short? 1- how is it educational? 2- how do you verify someone is who they claim to be? 3- you have a section on 'vanity' but curiously not one on 'privacy'. I am not really convinced that 'information should be free' successfully translates into 'I have an innate right to know about every private individual on the planet'.
regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 05/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/11/06, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
I have suggested a new project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki . Please have a look. In short, the wiki has information on any person or organisation on the planet. The page explains this concept in more detail.
"Wikistalk" for short?
Just the post I was about to make ...
- d.
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