[Foundation-l] New project proposal - Wikibuilder

Wed Jan 19 08:56:58 UTC 2005

I'm sympathetic to this view but the corollary is that a special 
Wikimedia project (i.e. not buried in Wikibooks) would encourage 
interest in an area where, comparatively speaking, you don't have a 
natural base of editors. Compare say the amount of builders, architects 
and musicians to the number of mathematicians and programmers. It's a 
systemic bias issue.

I would rather see such new projects *that have recognised potential 
and a good plan* given a prominent domain space such as:
beta.wikimedia.org/Wikibuilder
or beta.wikibuilder.org
..and advertised along side Wikisource, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia 
projects under a Wikibetas heading or something.

I think this is especially pertinent to projects that may need special 
code to reach their true potential, such as presenting music notation 
in Wikiscores or previews of 2D and 3D CAD files in Wikibuilder.

Christiaan

On 19 Jan 2005, at 4:25 am, Sj wrote:

> I would like to see the process for creating new factual/specialist
> Wikimedia projects include a stage at whic hthe new project is a
> Wikibook, which serves as a demonstration of what project content will
> include (and a rough topic mesh for the project), proof of interest in
> the project, and a source of inspiration to new project contributors.
>
> After this initial overview book could come full-fledged project 
> development.
>
> +sj+
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:43:41 +0000, Christiaan Briggs
> <christiaan at last-straw.net> wrote:
>> Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
>>
>>> Can't it be a part of Wikibooks?
>>
>> It could, but then so could all the Wikimedia projects. I'm not sure 
>> it
>> would suit Wikibooks. I see this as a "commons" project covering the
>> design and construction of the built environment *in its entirety* in
>> all languages. Plus the prominence of being a separate Wikimedia
>> project will help in attracting builders and designers. It may even
>> need special code introduced into MediaWiki to deal with
>> presenting/previewing up-and-coming 2D and 3D file formats, etc.
>>
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