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

[Benjamin Webb]

Hello again.

Firstly, I didn't actually write the software myself. It was
Baya<http://engine.rodovid.org/wiki/User:Baya>who did. I am simply
publiscising the project as I am a native speaker of
English, whilst he is not. The main reason I think that becoming a WIkimedia
project would be a good idea is the recognisation. The 'Wikimedia project'
logo would bring credebility to the site.

Also, of course is the traffic. The great benefit, that I will not get if
the project is run independently is inter-wiki links. In the same way pages
have a 'commons has media about the subject: x', if Rodovid became a
Wikimedia project, we would be able to have 'Rodovid (or alternate name) has
genealogical information about x'.

Anyway, thanks for pointing me to the category Brian.

Benjamin Webb

On 25/03/06, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Angela wrote:
> > On 3/25/06, Benjamin Webb <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> 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
>
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