(I am going out of Belgrade for a couple of days and I would like to
start this RFC, too. When I back to Belgrade (during the next week)
I'll try to make proposals for mass content adding and this idea on
Meta.)
In this moment we (on sr:) are talking about mass content adding in
Serbian Wikipedia. The main issue are 40.000 of French municipalities
and around 60.000 of municipalities from former Yugoslavia. (As well
as municipalities from the rest of the world.)
Even this kind of articles will have a limited amount of information
at the beginning, the amount of information can grow. For example: In
this moment we have geographic and some demographic data. But, in the
near future I can add some linguistic data, too (what dialect is
spoken in what place; this can be very interesting because some
dialectology atlases have a lot of information); as well as we can add
a number of other information which are related to geography (time
lines, ethnography, etc.).
BUT, some people do not see Wikipedia as revolution encyclopedia. Some
people want to work on a classic encyclopedias which are divided into
general and special. In general, project Wikispecies is a try to make
one specialized encyclopedia.
My suggestion is to resolve this conflict on software level: Like
Wikispecies, we can have (subdomains)
xx.geography.wikipedia.org,
xx.astronomy.wikipedia.org, and even
xx.economy.wikipedia.org,
xx.history.wikipedia.org etc. Such subdomains, as well as Wikispecies
would become categories inside of Wikipedia as well as separate sites
which would have only articles from specific field.
Also, this would make more easy possibility to print Wikipedia
partially. It would be more easy to make editions like "Wikipedia:
Geography", "Wikipedia: Linguistics" etc.
What do you think?