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

[Samuel Klein]

I find projects to build large catalogs interesting; many of these are
simply not done well online. If you have a free catalog, you can
visaulize its elements on a map / with search; add reviews and images
and comments to what was previously uncommentable.  Some potential
catalogs:


Organizations - O(10M) V [ like wiserearth, whitepages? ]
Books and published works - O(10M) new published pieces a year. [
openlibrary.org ]
Websites - O(10M) V, non-spam sites?  [ aboutus.com ]
People/genealogy - O(1B) verifiable data points.  [ rodovid : O(100k) ]
Locations - O(1B) buildings and urban places.  Fewer identifiable/V
places in nature.
Popular online files - O(1B) V + N (for some defined N), by url + date
Mass-produced objects - O(10B) V, by UPC or other code.  [ no public site ]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim at blueoxen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> WiserEarth <http://wiserearth.org/> originally intended to do this for
> organizations with social missions. Its emphasis has since expanded to
> become more social network/community-oriented, but its directory data
> still exists, is editable, and is an important part of the site.
>
> =Eugene
>
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