[Foundation-l] Project Proposal: Wikicat

Sun Jul 30 01:44:19 UTC 2006

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> 
> 
> Even though I think Wikicat is one of most promising
> project 
> proposals in the last few years, I fear it will have
> a hard time 
> to explain, over and over again, the basics of
> bibliography to all 
> newcomers who think they are experts.  How can this
> project sort 
> out the beginners and give them easy but meaningful
> tasks where 
> they can be productive, without their ignorance
> causing damage?

One of the soft deliverables of the project proposal
is documentation and hopefully a training regime to
orient new users.  The hope is that appropriate groups
like  Wikiproject Librarians could take up the
responsibility once Wikicat became world-editable.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat#Stage_1.0

> 
> Could we perhaps have a separate mailing list
> (wikicat-l) for 
> discussions about Wikicat, even before the project
> is formally 
> established? That would be an opportunity to
> establish some level 
> of common knowledge and "get to know" each other.
> 

It would be very useful, I think, to invite the
members of Wikiproject Librarians to this discussion
from the outset.  If anyone knows of similar groups on
the non-English Wikipedias please invite them as well.

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