[Foundation-l] Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects (was Vote to create Wikiversity Vote)

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 11/13/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>>I also don't see why a wiki for game cards or for elementary schools
>>>or for (to use another example) dead people wouldn't make a good wiki.
>>>In fact, at some point or another I've proposed the latter two as
>>>projects.
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>>As far as I'm concerned, whatever we have on these belongs in Wikipedia.
>>We only need bold and courageous action to deal with the deletion madness.
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>I probably agree with you.  But there is pretty strong opposition to
>Wikipedia being a phone book, a knowledge base, a geneology website,
>or a memorial website, though I think these all fit clearly within the
>scope of Wikimedia (and in fact much of "What Wikipedia is not" does).
> I seriously doubt the scope of Wikipedia is going to be expanded to
>include these things.
>
Philosophically I think that an encyclopedia IS a knowledge base, but 
that could just lead us into a lot of unsolvable semantic arguments.

There are companies out there that can do phone books much better than 
we ever could.  Until Wikipedia came along on-line genealogy was already 
perhaps the best self-organized amateur research area on the net.  It 
would take a tremendous effort to come up to speed in that area..  We 
have had our own 9-11 Wiki, but that has not exactly been a memorial 
success.

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