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

[Eugene Eric Kim]

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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