[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Lookup directory wiki

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 23:41:26 UTC 2006


"Wikinews" is educational because it demonstrates current events of that
period of time, as well as what people knew back then. History in the
making.

On 11/6/06, Virgil Ierubino <virgil.ierubino at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wayyyyyyyyy outside Wikimedia's goals and functional
> >area.
>
> I don't think so. How is Wikinews "educational"? It's about information,
> is
> it not?
>
> > 'Wikistalk' for short.
>
> Thank you to whoever pointed out I'd missed a section on "Privacy"! Of
> course, the wiki does not intend to be a "Wikistalk" - merely a collection
> of information that would be publicly viewable anyway. See the brand new:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lookup_directory_wiki#Privacy
>
> By your reasoning, the Yellow Pages should be called the Stalker Pages.
> Lookup directories are not about stalking. They're useful.
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