[Foundation-l] Proposal: Wikicommerce

Fri Sep 23 21:56:35 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Corum O' Fallamhain <corumsmail at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikitrade
>> I have proposed a new Wiki site called Wikitrade, Wikicommerce, Wikimoney,
>>or WIkibusiness. A while ago, a number of proposals were made (Wikiproducts,
>>Wikineur, and Trade Standard) that had a similar notion. Then I had an idea:
>>why don't we have a Wiki (NPOV, of course) devoted to all aspects of trade
>>and commerce? This could incorporate issues related to globalisation and
>>serve as a source of information about consumer products, stock markets, and
>>commodity prices, etc. It could also serve as a source of information about
>>investment conditions in a given country.
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>And having all that in Wikipedia would be a bad idea why?
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What would the SEC think of using wikis to trade securities? :-)

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