[Foundation-l] New Proposal: WikiMemory

Thu Sep 15 19:07:55 UTC 2005

--- "Poe, Marshall" <MPoe at theatlantic.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends:
> 
> I've proposed a new wiki--Wikimemory (or Wikimemoir, or IWasThereWiki,
> or something better).  It's logged in the Meta section on new proposals.
> Here's the pitch:
> 
> The idea is to provide a place where anyone can record his or her
> memoirs of historically significant events. Most everyone has
> participated in such occurrences. Take, for example, the hundreds of
> thousands who were affected the recent tragedy in New Orleans.
> Unfortunately, there is no repository for the storage of the memories of
> such people. Their experiences can neither be shared with others today
> (I, for one, would like to read first-hand accounts of the New Orleans
> floods), and they will be lost to history tomorrow. In ten, one hundred
> or one thousand years, the memoirs of those "who were there" will be
> very valuable. Wikimemory will, I hope, allow people all over the world
> to record their experiences, share them with others, and pass them to
> the future. I've created a mock-up of the site at
> http://memoirbank.com/. 
> 
> A nice tag line for the site: "Everyone has a story. Make yours
> history."
> 
> I'd love to hear what you think.

Interesting idea. Recording personal experiences from historically significant
events could be rolled into the genealogy and memorial project idea known as
Wikimorial/Wikipeople. Basically, the idea is to create entries on people (yep
- any person) and have those organized in family trees and event-specific
memorials where appropriate. To be really effective though, the WikiData
extension of the MediaWiki software needs to exist first. 

See 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipeople
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimorial

-- mav

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