[Foundation-l] WikiLists solution (was: Transwiki wars, precedence, and the fate of user-compiled lists

Sun Jul 31 20:05:42 UTC 2005

Hi all,
Why not create a separate wiki for Lists,
call it WikiLists and allow the archival of
all sorts of lists on whatever anyone wants
to make a list of, be it disaster victims,
Restaurants in the Chicago area, Languages
spoken in the Amazon jungle, who knows
what will be useful to someone else, and
the nice thing about it is that it could serve
as a reference for other wiki projects where
long lists aren't so welcomed ... I remember
running into a problem with vocab lists when
Wiktionary in English was first put online.
Lists are definitely useful to some people
and definitely good resources when you
might need such a thing on whatever subject
your interest is.

So WikiLists would be an excellent project
and would resolve the dispute. With interwiki
links one could very well take advantage of
a nice project like that I would think.

With sincere regards,
Jay B.

2005/7/30, Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com>:
> Short version: There is a huge battle going on in which VFDers on WP,
> WS, and Commons are pushing user-compiled lists from one project to
> another. In each case, they are saying the lists belong on one of the
> other 3 projects. Almost nobody is saying that these lists don't belong
> anywhere, but nobody can decide on where they belong. It also doesn't
> help that nobody on one project accepts the outcome of another project's
> VFD (an outcome which may have said to transwiki to this project) as a
> reason to keep it on this project.
>