Yes. Many , many and many good ideas just went away because there were no enough resources to carry them on, no matter in academic ,industrial or even personal areas. And some of them are really beneficial to human beings.

Thus, It is really good to have a centralized place to put those immature, discontinued ideas and let any others to refine them and realize them. All of the participants must agree to contribute their ideas and efforts to the general public.

However, you got the point: we need a practical license for this type of intellectual property. Mostly it contradicts the current patent laws. Just like free software contradicts copyright. We need a "Stallman" in this area too,.

My basic assumption here is: To a better future of human being, we need share many more than just knowledge. Knowledge is just rice and flour. There are many more important things we need to spread and pass down: such as wisdom and good ideas.

Simply to know something does not help us too much, we need to find good ideas about how to use these knowledge and produce something brand new. I'd like to be a person knowing a little and produce something rather than a person knowing a lot but produce nothing.

Best regards.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:00:45 +0000, Adam Moniz envsci@gmail.com wrote:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Share_your_ideas

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Share_your_ideas

Hi,

I was just about to make a new suggestion for a wikideas section then I found. This is exactly what I had in mind. I'd obviously be willing to put a little into it, I totally agree that one of the main peices of work is to modify the GPL to create an ideas licence rather than a software licence.

I think wikideas is quite a catchy title and would suit this project.

One of the main reasons I'd like such a project to exist is because I have many ideas I'd love to create wikis on in www.wikipedia.org but i'm not sure if they'd allow my wakcy theories to count as fact. I could even create a section on "Adam Moniz" :-P an autobiograhy that becomes a biography as more and more people who dislike me discover the page. :-)

I believe wikideas is a very powerful proposition. This is because in order to contribute to the current academic system you have to be involved in research, but there appears to be many areas where individual thought on a mass scale could yield results, areas of philosophy and current affairs are good examples. It's difficult to explain why I think this would be the case. Good luck with this project and get in touch. :-)

Cheers,

Adam Moniz