[Foundation-l] Rodovid.org, family tree wiki, wishes to become a wiki project

[Brian]

To gain a bit more interest, you might talk to the people in this category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_genealogists


Angela wrote:

>On 3/25/06, Benjamin Webb <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>I'd noticed that you'd menationed the specialised software on wikitree.org,
>>I'd just be intereseted to know what you think about the specialised
>>software of Rodovid <http://rodovid.org> and what you, as someone high up
>>the the foundation, think about it becoming a foundation project.
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>That looks good too, and I've no opinion on whether Rodovid or
>Wikitree is using a better approach. Perhaps there are aspects of each
>that should be included. I'm also wondering whether Wikidata will fit
>into this somehow, or whether the structure you're using on Rodovid
>replaces that.
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>The last time a genealogy wiki was seriously proposed as a Wikimedia
>project, there was little interest, and few answers to the questions I
>asked at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipeople>.  What
>software to use and what to do with the Sep11 wiki still need to be
>addressed. However, it is one of the proposals that comes up most
>often, so perhaps there is interest there, certainly from editors, but
>is there enough interest from developers to give this project the
>software changes it would need?
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>Angela.
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