[Foundation-l] Wikiatlas(es) - modification of old proposal

Thu Jul 6 09:38:16 UTC 2006

In wikipedias users make articles, which are not articles but galleries or there are (galleries) sections of articles. It is often the same what we have on commons. Look here:

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalisz#Galeria_Zdj.C4.99.C4.87_Kalisza

and

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kalisz

or

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_-_album

and

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w

So, I think, that not only users want albums of their cities. Many people want to look for Zoological atlas, Historical atlas... We have many files now, but on commons there are described in English or native language for described city, village or person. If I want read something about Madrid I must know English or Spanish. If you want read about Polish villages on commons you must know that language. Of course we hawe Wikipedia, but people wants gallery of photos, maps and other graphics described in their languages. Description in all languages is not good, if it on one page.

But, if we will have a new project: "Wikiatlas" or "Wikialbums"... So I've written about it on meta. I only supplemented old proposal for project Wikiatlas:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiatlas#Not_only_geographical_atlas

What do you think about it?

Przykuta