[Foundation-l] Project Proposal: GlobalFamilyTree

Mon May 24 12:56:17 UTC 2004

Quoting Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>:

> --- Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3 at msstate.edu> wrote:
> > Quoting Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>:
> > > I've already proposed that at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimorial .
> > >
> > > The idea is to simply expand the focus of the the Sep11wiki (which is a
> > > rather
> > > lonely place).
> > >
> > > The only major stumbling block was the name - some people didn't like
> > > 'Wikimorial'. Other ideas were:
> > > *Wikimedia Memorial (generic and boring, IMO),
> > > *Wikipeople (I liked this one so I bought the domain names),
> > > *Wikifamily (another one I liked - although in the U.S. right-wing
> > Christian
> > > fundamentalists have co-opted the word "family").
> >
> > Well, I guess I missed that one. It sounds like our end goal is the same,
> but
> > for different reasons. Your description and name (Wikimorial) implies a
> > memorial/obituary/mourning project, more than a living global genealogy.
> But
> > perhaps this is not the case?
>
> It would be both. There would be individual pages on individual people and
> there also would be memorial pages that list people who died in some
> disaster/military assault/terrorist act/industrial accident/whatever. The
> "memorial"-type names were just an emphasis on that aspect.
>
> I would also like to see actual family trees constructed on family name
> pages.
> There is a wiki syntax to do this that is being developed.

It sounds like this is worth pursuing. Shall I continue to discuss this here, or
go over to the wiki page?

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