[Foundation-l] Re: What constitutes a good use of Wikimedia resources?, was New project proposal - Wikibuilder

Sun Jan 23 15:19:52 UTC 2005

I do not think there is a wide discussion anywhere, but little bits here 
and there might lead you to a certain type of answer.

There is a tendency I think, to restrict what Wikipedia itself could 
welcome, and to move to other places what does not belong to a 
restricted definition of what an encyclopedia is.

For those who have a restricted definition of what an encyclopedia is, I 
see a tendency to wish either new projects, or to suggest that the new 
topic be put in wikibooks. It seems wikibooks is more and more becomming 
the place to put all what is a bit embarassing to classify.

I wonder if in the future, what we will see is the multiplication of 
specialized projects, OR the multiplication of wikibooks to host a 
specialized topic, OR somehow a success in putting the specialized 
project within Wikipedia itself.

I think this is a key issue for the future, as we see an increasing 
number of specialized proposals (such as the wikibuilder or emergency 
medicine proposals), or topics being removing from Wikipedia to be 
hosted in a wikibook (such as recipes).

Ant

Christiaan Briggs a écrit:
> Further to the question of appropriateness of, say, [[Wikibuilder]], an 
> answer might be more forthcoming within the realms of a wider question, 
> such as, if Wikimedia were to eventually cover all human knowledge how 
> would it best be divided up into main categories (projects)? (And, in 
> terms of Wikibuilder, would this be one of them?)
> 
> It would be interesting to develop a discussion along the lines of this 
> question. Has it been touched on elsewhere? Where would it be best 
> discussed on meta?
> 
> Christiaan