[Foundation-l] New project proposal - Wikibuilder

Wed Jan 19 12:04:04 UTC 2005

like google labs, only wikilabs? a place to put all our crazy dreams...
sounds like a good idea.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:56:58 +0000, Christiaan Briggs
<christiaan at last-straw.net> wrote:
> 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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