[Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

[Robert Rohde]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we need a peripheral Wikipedia layer for items meeting V, but
> where N being based on general assumptions:  a level for verifiable
> articles that don't meet current notability standards.
>
> It could be a separate project, Wikidirectory--just as we moved out
> dicdefs, and quotations, and so on, except  that  there are already
> too many projects to keep track of.  Could we do it within Wikipedia,
> perhaps as a namespace?
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
>

Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where)
was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the
yellow pages.  Something managed under a wiki model to include the
names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, and a short description of
any and all local businesses.  Commercial businesses are a fine
example of entities that are usually verifiable but not notable from
Wikipedia's point of view, and having a central repository of
directory information would generally be useful.  A crowd sourced
directory would suffer from the general problems of accuracy that all
our wikiprojects have to worry about, but probably has the potential
to include more comprehensive information than the commercial
providers can manage.

If people truly believe in the "sum of all human knowledge" paradigm,
then eventually we'll have to confront what to do with a wide range of
factual information (like yellow page listings, family trees, sports
almanacs, and other things) that are permanent or semi-permanent and
yet generally not in the scope of projects like Wikipedia because they
aren't very notable.  Wikibooks can vaguely address some of this, but
shoehorning everything into a "book" model doesn't really make sense
either.

-Robert Rohde