Hello, Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or at least cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages? Or invest money in promoting it?
Kind regards Ziko 2012/4/3 Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: > With the launch of the WikiData effort, I am reminded that we should > return to our early willingness to experiment with new project ideas. > This means both starting new types of projects (like commons, like > wikidata!) and closing / archiving / spinning off projects (like the > sep11 wiki). > > Two things I would love to see in the near future: > - a fixed new-project process, and at least one proposal evaluated > through it. Starting to work through the backlog of new project > ideas/requests that have existing active projects elsewhere > - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are > as a society towards reaching that goal > > SJ > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> > > > I would love to see the new project process on Meta come back online. > (much of this email is posted to [[m:talk:new project proposals]]) > > I could use some help in making this happen - we need to start an > incubator process for ideas with support, and a separate process for > proposing existing projects that have been incubated elsewhere for > support or hosting. The meta page for each proposed project should > track its progress, whether offsite or on the incubator... a project > infobox should be designed... an interested group (if less formal than > langcom) should go through and review the backlog of proposals and > suggest the necessary next step for each. > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Alec Conroy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You can always make Wikinfo a sister project. > > A space to hold POV debates would be an interesting intermediate > ground between no-restraint edit wars and topic bans, for those in > heated argument. Is Wikinfo designed for this? I was thinking of > something more like 'Wikireason'. There have been various proposals > for an 'argument wiki' over the years, but I've never seen a working > implementation. > >> I have actually been independently trying to think of other wikis that >> should be "sister projects". Some are really obvious and >> non-controversial-- > >> SNPedia, for example, an encyclopedia of single nucleotide polymorphisms and >> related studies > Yes. Link: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia > > Genealogy: WeRelate and Rodovid. Both remarkable and lovely > projects. Combinable, if all parties could be brought together. > Both could use support; I've touched on the possibility of becoming > WMF projects with each, and they are willing to discuss it. The > result would be by far the largest free collection of genealogy > information, with support from one of the major libraries studyig and > archiving related data in the US > > Children's encyclopedia: WikiKids, Vikidia, Grundschulwiki, Wikimini. > These projects could be coordinated better to share ideas and lessons, > and could use more visibility. Some people active in these projects > are already Wikimedians. > > Dictionaries: OmegaWiki. This multilingual dictionary could help > revamp our toolchain for Wiktionary, which remains a bit broken. > > Interface translation: TranslateWiki. iirc it does not want to be a > WMF project per se, but could use more explicit support than we have > given so far. > > Citations and bibliography: AcaWiki (and the budding WikiScholar). > > Wikified maps: Wikimapia. currently profitable and popular; probably > fine on their own. However they use a non-free map stack and use an > NC license; finding a way to help that project migrate to a free stack > and license [now that there is a free orthorectified aerial map > available > http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima] > would be of benefit to the whole world. > > > Other projects for which there is a supply of raw materials available > from content donors (which we cannot currently accept): > * Annotated source materials and their translations: Part of Wikisource++ ? > * Translation memory: Part of Translatewiki++ ? > * Public datasets: Wikidata > * Music scores: Wikimusic > > >> We're at the point where the lack of diversity of our English language >> project 'styles' may be a major factor dissuading new users from >> participation. > > It is certainly one of the factors. > > > Sam. > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 > 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. 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