I'd like to announce a new mediawiki-based project called Wikicompany:

http://www.wikicompany.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikicompany)

The goal is to create a community built, worldwide, business directory, licensed under the GNU FDL license (with some exceptions for images).

More can be read in the Wikicompany introduction page: http://wikicompany.org/wiki/Wikicompany:Wikicompany

Currently I'm working to get all the Wikipedia company articles into Wikicompany. Most of the European articles are now inserted.

There are already some articles on Wikicompany which aren't in WP, and over time this will increase, as most companies in the world are not really encyclopedia worthy. I hope there can be a healthy symbiosis between the company articles on WP and those on Wikicompany.

Comments and remarks are welcome on the Wikicompany mailing list (https://lists.wikicompany.org/listinfo/wikicompany-list) or on on the Wiki (eg. at: http://wikicompany.org/wiki/Wikicompany:Ideas)

File downloads (including DB dumps) will be made available on: http://debianlinux.net/wikicompany/

regards,

Jama Poulsen