On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:16:41AM +0200, Ivan Krstic
wrote:
Edward Peschko wrote:
That being said - I still think there is a big
hole that could be
filled in the wikimedia foundation, whilst providing good public service.
And that is in the area of free-form research.
I would second Tim's suggestion to look at wiki hosting providers. If
the free ones don't cut it, one of the MediaWiki developers offers a
paid, supported service at
http://www.wikidev.net. If you would like to
easily include links to wikipedia articles inside your wiki, your
installation of MediaWiki could be trivially extended to do so.
I understand that there are alternatives, but I don't get it... I'm asking for
feedback on an idea (one that I think would do a lot of good IMO)
In any case, in making a:
a) generic research platform inside of wiki
b) specific research platform on energy issues
I think I would be doing a great public service. Why should I have to pay for
it (more than any other contributor to wikipedia) I mean, I'd be willing
to donate for equipment to the wiki foundation, but moving it to a paid
supported service seems like the wrong place for it. And in any case, the subject
covered is of utmost importance and should get as much traffic as it could possibly
get IMO.
What am I missing here?
Ed
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The articles that you propose are imho relevant within Wikipedia. There
are two ways to create the identified content within Wikipedia.
One way is by using the category system. The other is to create a Portal
page as well. This would be a page to structure the information.
The benefit would be that it remains within Wikipedia and it would ease
people interested in the subject to create similar information in their
native wikipedia.
One objection is that wikipedia is not the platform for original
research. However you were talking about bundling the known facts. As
such it would not be research. Write some articles, get some people to
cooperate, link to your pages, categories where applicable and write
your "Main page".
Thanks,
GerardM