[Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

[Samuel Klein]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Erik Moeller<erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2009/7/31 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
>> On critical complex topics, the Foundation could benefit from more
>> discussion and better planning.  Why have we made it so hard to start
>> new Projects?
>
> I would suggest that we use the strategy call for proposals to
> re-surface some of the most important project ideas that people would
> like to bring attention to.
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Proposals

Yes.

> IMO there's simply a lack of community support for a lot of ideas,
> either because people feel they are bad ideas, out of scope for our
> mission, already covered within the scope of existing projects, or
> hard to make work with the existing software. That said, I think there

I was thinking particularly of Wikikids and Wikifamily (Rodovid),
which are useful for significant audiences, implementable in an
elegant way, about creating and sharing collections of free knowledge,
and have existing multilingual communities.  I don't know if they
still need support of any kind, but their proposals for Wikimedia
hosting remain.

> are definitely many ideas that are worth exploring further.
>
> My personal favorites:
> * a shared repository for structured data, the equivalent to Wikimedia
> Commons for data (some coherent synthesis of ideas from FreeBase,
> OmegaWiki, and Semantic MediaWiki);
> * a wiki for the global community of makers to share designs and
> prototypes for both functional and entertaining objects, which is
> becoming increasingly important as fabbing facilities become
> commonplace;
> * a wiki for annotated source code examples, similar to LiteratePrograms.org;
+1

> * a wiki for standardization;
> * a dedicated public outreach / evangelism wiki.

What would this look like?

Also...
*A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work,
statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion about its
usefulness as a citation (a collaboration with OpenLibrary, merging
WikiCite ideas)

Sj