[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

[Ray Saintonge]

Tris Thomas wrote:
> I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe 
> WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin.  Along 
> with importing national weather from other sources(especially to begin 
> with), contributors could then put their weather where they are.  This 
> could evolve into many contributors giving very localised weather 
> forecasts worldwide, which could be used by many of the other projects 
> and anybody else.
>
> Would people be interested in this proposal/have any thoughts on it?
>   

While this would be very nice if it could be done, I don't see any 
realistic chance of it happening.  Original reporting on Wikinews is 
spotty because there are far too few people going out to give direct 
coverage to the stories, even when notable stories in a place happen 
only infrequently.  We have weather everywhere, everyday, 24/7, and it 
is constantly changing.  I don't see how there could be enough 
dedication to the task to make this fly.

Ec