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

[John Vandenberg]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we are just throwing out random ideas...
>
> I've long wanted to see an open source project to create a world
> family tree, i.e. document the ancestry and connections between
> everyone ever.  There are a couple high profile closed source / fee
> based projects aiming to do this, but no successful projects that
> really have open access as part of their foundation.  Even if we
> limited such a project to just deceased individuals (as the big
> projects usually do) it would still be a massive undertaking and
> potentially very useful for researchers.
>
> However, while a wiki could work, it would be a suboptimal approach.
> Much like wikispecies, genealogical information has a heavy component
> of structured data that could benefit from dedicated tools designed
> for that data.  As has been suggested elsewhere, it seems that most of
> the things that can be easily done by a wiki are already being done
> either by us or by Wikia and similar third parties.

Robert,

Are you familiar with Rodovid ?

It has been mentioned in this thread by Yann, and is the top project
mentioned here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rodovid

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John Vandenberg