[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/8 Tris Thomas <Tris at waterhay.co.uk>:
> Dear All,
> I don't know whether this has been discussed before, apologies if it has.
>
> 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?

It would all be importing forecasts from other sources, though. You
can't give a forecast by looking out the window, you can just say what
the weather is now. Why would people use WikiWeather rather than going
direct to those sources which would be more up-to-date and reliable?