On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Timwi wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
I'd like to propose that we break
Wikipedia's Reference Desk (and
wikibook's Study help desk) to they're own wiki, at the moment both are
fairly unstructured.
They seem to me to be very specific things; I think a whole new Wiki
would be overkill. Instead, you can implement your proposed structed as
subpages. Whatever you can do on a separate Wiki, you can do in subpages
under [[Wikipedia:Reference desk]].
Firstly "Wikipedia:" pages aren't supposed to be content pages and
secondly the decision was made a while back not to use subpages for
content pages (see [[Wikipedia:Subpages]]).
As for overkill, I think not, such a site could easily grow to
hundreds or thousands of questions today, for example see Google Answers,
BrainFuse, Ask-It-Here, etc. In the past such sites (most notably
WHQuestion and to a lesser extent KnowPost) have run out of funding and
their entire archives of tens of thousands of questions and answers have
disappeared overnight, so the Wikimedia copyleft approach would seem
perfect for such a site.
But it will also mean that you will have *yet* another
site with *yet*
another DB, *yet* another sign-in, *yet* another set of preferences,
*yet* another watchlist etc.etc.
Unless you have a serious case of [[Wikipediholic]]ism I think you'll find
it's not actually compulsory to join every Wikimedia project :-)
Imran
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