[Foundation-l] RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)

Tue Oct 27 20:14:49 UTC 2009

I have just seen a list of the Wikimedia projects and noticed that the
last one was created in 2006, is that right?
In spite of all sympathy for a Wiki-directory I am afraid that
partially Wikipedia already has taken over that part. When I am
looking for the web site of a museum I tend to go to the Wikipedia
article about that museum and look there under "Weblinks".
Kind regards
Ziko

2009/10/27 Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
>>> This was motivated after I was referred to the "Wikipedia is not a web
>>> directory" section of:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
>
> One workaround I've found is to add a "resources" section to the
> /talk/ page and list sites there. I've been responsible for a few
> rather long 'external links' sections and have been disappointed to
> see them trimmed because I felt all of the links I provided were valid
> (in that they provided substantial information not easily included in
> the article [for example, on an article about an author including
> links to articles written by them] or hosted images that we couldn't
> use [particularly useful for modern artists]).
>
> With the section on the talk page I added my recommendation that the
> section should not be archived when the talk page grew large as I felt
> the section would remain of value to editors and ought to remain
> relatively prominent.
>
> It's not an ideal solution because there's not much you can do with
> the section other than edit/add to it. But I felt it was a good
> compromise for those times when I was in disagreement with another
> editor over the external links section.
>
> I tend towards the "argh, no, not another project" view on things. I
> think because, and perhaps this is unfair, I dislike that they may
> drain talent and resources away from the encyclopedias.
>
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