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

Brian brian0918 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 16:58:51 UTC 2006


>The software Benjamin has written himself looks quite solid and reasonably feature complete to me. I
>don't see why he would need to attract interest from developers when he's obviously quite a
>proficient one himself. Wikimedia could certainly benefit from Benjamin's expertise, if we could win
>him over, but I'm not sure what benefit Benjamin expects to derive from Wikimedia. Whether or not
>this is a Wikimedia project, Benjamin will have to do most of the development and promotion himself.
>Hosting costs should be small during startup, easily covered by donations. If he can avoid
>Wikimedia's bureaucracy and run the project himself, why not do so?
>
>-- Tim Starling
>
Fortunately, in the genealogy world, there is a huge online presence. It 
would be as simple as posting a well-written message to numerous 
genealogy mailing lists to increase the user base.



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