[Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

Pharos pharosofalexandria at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 17:42:45 UTC 2010


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler <programmer651 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac.
>>
>
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects> :-)

Our friends at the allied project OpenStreetMap ("The Free Wiki World
Map") have gone a long way in this direction, and you probably want to
check their project out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Here's a great recent feature from the BBC about 'The volunteer
mappers who helped Haiti':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8517057.stm

Thanks,
Pharos

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