[Foundation-l] Rodovid.org, family tree wiki, wishes to become a wiki project

Sat Mar 25 16:26:30 UTC 2006

Hoi,
It is quite true that at the start of a project you can find the money
to host the data involved. When you grow over a "certain" size, this
becomes problematic. With enough people interested, you can grow
REALLY big databases. Then again with enough people giving you can
grow really grow .. The Wikimedia Foundation is the perfect example :)

The only question as far as I am concerned is, is this a project for
the Wikimedia Foundation. Does it fit in what it aims to do. If it
does .. why not.

Thanks,
   GerardM

On 3/25/06, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Angela wrote:
> > On 3/25/06, Benjamin Webb <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'd noticed that you'd menationed the specialised software on wikitree.org,
> >>I'd just be intereseted to know what you think about the specialised
> >>software of Rodovid <http://rodovid.org> and what you, as someone high up
> >>the the foundation, think about it becoming a foundation project.
> >
> >
> > That looks good too, and I've no opinion on whether Rodovid or
> > Wikitree is using a better approach. Perhaps there are aspects of each
> > that should be included. I'm also wondering whether Wikidata will fit
> > into this somehow, or whether the structure you're using on Rodovid
> > replaces that.
> >
> > The last time a genealogy wiki was seriously proposed as a Wikimedia
> > project, there was little interest, and few answers to the questions I
> > asked at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipeople>.  What
> > software to use and what to do with the Sep11 wiki still need to be
> > addressed. However, it is one of the proposals that comes up most
> > often, so perhaps there is interest there, certainly from editors, but
> > is there enough interest from developers to give this project the
> > software changes it would need?
>
> The software Benjamin has written himself looks quite solid and reasonably feature complete to me. I
> don't see why he would need to attract interest from developers when he's obviously quite a
> proficient one himself. Wikimedia could certainly benefit from Benjamin's expertise, if we could win
> him over, but I'm not sure what benefit Benjamin expects to derive from Wikimedia. Whether or not
> this is a Wikimedia project, Benjamin will have to do most of the development and promotion himself.
> Hosting costs should be small during startup, easily covered by donations. If he can avoid
> Wikimedia's bureaucracy and run the project himself, why not do so?
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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