[Foundation-l] New Wiki-idea

[Samuel Klein]

Preferably, that you created the idea, advertised it on this or other lists,
and added it with appropriate metadata to the new project ideas page!

I've cleaned up the page a bit, archived the oldest ones, and added a
reasonably compact template to use for future proposals... some of those are
really good ideas we should get around to implementing.

In particular, I'd like to see us consider a geo-centered wiki (which could
tie into geodata on other projects, help better organize the commons maps,
and improve on the sort of data one can find at wikimapia these days) and a
genealogy wiki (which would be a relief to the thousands of people
struggling on small, mutually incompatible, and often poorly-licensed sites,
and naturally leverage our global extent).

SJ

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 2008/8/22 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 2008/8/22 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:29 AM, James Taylor <taylorjames9 at gmail.com
> >
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Hi-
> > >> >
> > >> > I have an idea for a wiki that I'd like to see developed by the
> > wikimedia
> > >> > foundation. I know that this listserv is good for developing
> > >> > ideas, but I don't know who it reaches. I'd rather just talk to one
> > >> person
> > >> > about this project. At this point it has excelled beyond
> > >> > a small, private wiki. I'm hoping for someone - hopefully someone at
> > the
> > >> > wikimedia foundation - to contact me so I can share the
> > >> > necessary and relevant documents with them, and learn more about how
> > to
> > >> make
> > >> > this happen.
> > >>
> > >> Hi Jim,
> > >>
> > >> New projects are usually proposed on meta.  If you havent already,
> > >> take a look at the current proposals as someone else might already
> > >> have proposed a similar project:
> > >>
> > >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> John Vandenberg
> > >>
> > >
> > > That page is fine for looking at previous proposals, but that page is
> now
> > > obselete. New projects should be proposed in the form of a brand new
> page
> > on
> > > meta.
> > >
> >
> > Uh... is this true? Is there a list or category for new projects,
> > then? I thought the old proposals list was still going. If people just
> > randomly start a new project page, how are other people supposed to
> > find it? Why was the old proposals list protected? The argument that
> > "we didn't take any of these in the past, therefore we won't take
> > anything in the future" seems a bit silly. Better to just archive that
> > page to a subpage and start afresh?
> >
> > phoebe
> >
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> Well the idea was you created the page and then advertised it on this list,
> Metapub, or wherever. But of course, I'm open to discussion. How about
> bringing it up on Meta?
>
> --
> Alex
> (User:Majorly)
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