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

Alex mrzmanwiki at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 18:23:47 UTC 2010


I wonder which would be harder, trying to start the first new project in
years, or trying to get the English Wikipedia to make a significant
policy change?

-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)


On 2/27/2010 12:40 PM, David Goodman wrote:
> WP contains many of  the essential elements  of an almanac already, and
> could very easily cover all the rest-- it doesn't take a new project, just a
> relaxation of some of the self-imposed strictures.  Relaxing, without
> eliminating , NOT NEWS ,  NOT DIRECTORY, and   NOT INDISCRIMINATE . there's
> only one point that would need actual removal:  NOT INDISCRIMINATE point 3,
> Excessive listing of statistics.
> 
> The basic change could be accomplished by doing just that one
> deletion--there is not need for another project, or even another space for
> data.
> 
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
> 
> 
> 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> :-)
>>
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>> Casey Brown
>> Cbrown1023
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