[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

Wed Dec 24 15:42:09 UTC 2008

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 03:10, Delirium wrote:
> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
> > I have submitted a new project proposal, at
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Soviet_Repressions_Memorial
>
> Isn't this the sort of thing we've been in the business of slowly
> getting out of, with the move offsite of the September 11 memorial wiki?
> The consensus from that move seemed to be that notable victims of the
> September 11 attacks get an article on the regular encyclopedia projects
> (what constitutes "notable" being a different debate), and non-notable
> ones are either redirects to a larger article discussing them or not
> there at all, but that in either case we shouldn't be in the business of
> hosting victim memorials.

In the proposal, I make my case as to how this is essential to fulfilling the 
mission of the Wikimedia Foundation.

-- 
Kurt Weber
http://blog.kurtweber.us
<kmw at kurtweber.us>