[Foundation-l] New Wiki-idea

Fri Aug 22 17:16:08 UTC 2008

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/22 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:29 AM, James Taylor <taylorjames9 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi-
>> >
>> > I have an idea for a wiki that I'd like to see developed by the wikimedia
>> > foundation. I know that this listserv is good for developing
>> > ideas, but I don't know who it reaches. I'd rather just talk to one
>> person
>> > about this project. At this point it has excelled beyond
>> > a small, private wiki. I'm hoping for someone - hopefully someone at the
>> > wikimedia foundation - to contact me so I can share the
>> > necessary and relevant documents with them, and learn more about how to
>> make
>> > this happen.
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> New projects are usually proposed on meta.  If you havent already,
>> take a look at the current proposals as someone else might already
>> have proposed a similar project:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
>
> That page is fine for looking at previous proposals, but that page is now
> obselete. New projects should be proposed in the form of a brand new page on
> meta.
>

Uh... is this true? Is there a list or category for new projects,
then? I thought the old proposals list was still going. If people just
randomly start a new project page, how are other people supposed to
find it? Why was the old proposals list protected? The argument that
"we didn't take any of these in the past, therefore we won't take
anything in the future" seems a bit silly. Better to just archive that
page to a subpage and start afresh?

phoebe