Proposals for new projects: Difference between revisions

There is ongoing discussion about the process used here. For archived proposals, see: 2004-2007, 2008, and the informal proposal archive.

This page hosts proposals for new projects that are inline with the Wikimedia Foundation goal of spreading and promoting knowledge. Before adding a new proposal, see the new project policy. Make proposals on this page if you are willing to take responsibility for it; otherwise, post it on the discussion page.

To propose a new language for an existing project, see Requests for new languages.
To propose closing an existing project, see Proposals for closing projects.
To suggest an enhancement which requires a change to MediaWiki, file a feature request in MediaZilla.
To propose enhancements to an existing project, visit that project and gather interest there.

Notes to consider

Hosting: Wikimedia Foundation is not a free hosting company for any kind of wikis. If your project does not fit the Foundation's ideals, try a wiki hosting site such as Wikia, or wikidev.net (see a list of wiki hosts with reviews) or download and host MediaWiki yourself.
History: Individuals attempting to create a new project should read the Wikipedia timeline and Uses of a wiki.
Be persistent. Don't take criticism personally. There have been mistakes in the past in regards to starting up new projects, and some users are afraid of repeating those mistakes. New ideas are taken seriously, though the process of going from an idea for a new project to actually turning on a server takes quite a bit of time and effort. Be prepared to take some "arrows" in your back, a lot of criticism, cynicism, and outright disbelief that your ideas are going to work. If it really is a good idea, there will be others willing to help you out! So, be persistent.
The last major project that made the jump from a project idea to something going on its own was Wikiversity. To see how a project idea has been successful, look at what was done to go from idea to an actual project with the project proposal page for Wikiversity. In particular, check the history and look over the complications they went through before going "live". Projects that don't live up to this sort of standard for coming into existance will likely not be considered as a new project by the Wikimedia Foundation. Don't get discouraged, but it is not going to be easy either.
If you see something that doesn't fit into any current Wikimedia project, could be done using MediaWiki software, can be distributed using the GFDL (or very similar license) for republishing, please add a suggestion below.

Existing projects

Before proposing a new project, make sure it doesn't already exist; see the list of existing projects below (and also here).

Many common proposals are best merged into one of these three:

Wikipedia: Wikipedia lists its subprojects at WikiProject. Many proposals could be incorporated into an existing one, or a new WikiProject could be started instead. Wikipedia is evolving, and much can be adapted from its current content and subcultures.
Wikisource: Wikisource has a similar list of larger subprojects. These focus on original source material that will require quite a bit of effort to transfer to that project. Historical dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other multi-volume reference works of a historical nature could go there.
Wikibooks: If you want to put together a large collection of factual information into one place, starting a Wikibook may be a good place to begin. If it doesn't quite fit Wikibooks, the other editors at Wikibooks can help you find the correct place as well.

Instructions

Read the detailed information on the policy page.
Create an account and a user page on this wiki, so people can address their questions to you.
Create a page here at Meta where you describe your plan in detail and add this to the Proposed projects category.
Add your proposal to this page using the recommended format.
Advertise your project. Good places to do so are on Goings-on and on the Foundation-l mailing-list (account needed).

Link the title of the new section to your page, and use this template when adding a new project: {{Newproject | proposers = | date = | names = | domains = | scope = | demos = | related-projects = | mailinglist-link = }}

Requests with demos and 10 supporters

Wikifamily, Rodovid (Genealogy Wiki)

Proposers	User:Baya (). Mailing list request: foundation-l
Overview	"Fully functional global family tree". Rodovid is an attempt to create a free familly tree site, that anyone can use. To see 43 generations read instruction directly on page : http://en.rodovid.org/wk/Special:Tree/29829 Demos: http://www.rodovid.org
Other names	Rodovid, Wikifamily (already a wikimedia domain), Wikinealogy, Wikipeople, Wikitree.. Potential domains : wikifamily.org. Related projects:

People Interested Joining

[Ulli Heist[1]] - the RdLanguageDe.php needs a fully translation, I will do it
User:master_flosse
User:Bjwebb
User:APPER
User:Morais69br
User:Dallan
Trevor macinnis
Balû
Lhademmor
— Dunc|☺
Roberth
Wikiacc (talk) en.w en.w
Red Baron
User:Backscheider
Holden
Pcu123456789
Andre Engels
User:mayhew18
User:Richard Melo da Silva
User:Chaerani
Ek7
Yann
Yakudza
User:PSMax8956
User:Chamberlian
User:Rakuten06
User:Dunning
User:CrnaGora (en)
VPliousnine
Manfroze
TDN169
Argento
Thanatosimii
Elcairo
Wknight94
Dovi
Bmunden
Maxipuchi
Johan R (sweden)
Greeves
NDCompuGeek
thesublime514
SPQRobin
AlexEagar
R0MAN0
~ putnik
Ionas68224
Andre Mesquita
TFMgames
Dvorsky
Arman Aziz
ElbonianFL
Felipe Aira As long as we'll have a Tagalog edition.
User:Karpeth
User:Ahonc
User:Abyssal_leviathin
--alexscho
Arctic Gnome
Art-top (ru)
Dionys 18:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Deevrod 14:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Desalvionjr 22:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 03:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
GranD 08:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
ZoolooS [2]
Irbisgreif
AndrewRT
MTC
Adrian Comollo 11:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel de Souza Telles 03:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
--Butko 09:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Tpt 14:12, 15 November 2009 (UTC) (french user)[reply]

Comments

Talk:Rodovid
what about the WeRelate suggestion above? NDCompuGeek
Just noting the existence of a genealogy wikia --Izno
The link to Wikifamily rdirects to a proposed project called Wikimorial related to the Sepmtember 11th attack on the world trade center. Also, there is a wiki about family trees at http://www.wikitree.org/ it is in the same software as Wikimedia but wether it aspires to be part of Wikimedia it doesn't say. For me it is a great idea but, of course, a long and slow growing project. ~ R.T.G 17:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion: as a timeline style wiki, what about merging in some of the notable timeline style wiki ideas below (especially related to historical development) such as, Wikitimeline, Wikidate, Wikihistory (maybe has its own support), Wikonstitution, Wikibibliography, Wikidata and (also I guess a historical/evolution project) Wikicode. As Wikifamily is bound to include some historical reference to place persons listed (such as what they book they wrote, what position they held, what invention they created etc.), it could also pool that stuff together as a sort of Wikiprogress or Chronopedia of stuff relating to human develpoment. I would imagine that Wikifamily would be dominated by influential and historical figures for signifigant time before average persons found their ancestry. As the tree of humanity would associated development be suitable? Possibly would generate additional weight to the wiki in the earlier stage. ~ R.T.G 19:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further to my suggestion would be a chronology of words although no current new proposals are for one. ~ R.T.G 20:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It might also be beneficial to create two namespaces: one for the genealogies themselves, and one for information regarding going about genealogical work. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 03:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikireason

Proposers	User:David Bruhn (). Mailing list request:
Overview	Collecting, cataloging, developing, and analyzing arguments. Demos: Wikireason
Other names	Wikireason/naming. Potential domains : wikireason.org, wikireason.net (reg. by AdamRetchless). Related projects: Wikibate (original proposed name)

People interested joining

Comments

Talk:Wikibate

Wikikids

Proposers	Necrophorus (Dec 2004), Gray Porpoise, Astirmays (20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)). Mailing list request: original May 2007[reply]
Overview	A wikipedia version for kids aged between 8 and 13 years old with specific themes and in a simple language. Children so as teenager and adults should be welcomed to edit the articles and help with the other wiki task. Demos: Wikikids (nl), Vikidia (fr), Wikimini (fr), Grundschulwiki (de), enwikikids (en)
Other names	Wikichildren, KidsWiki, etc.. Potential domains : http://www.wikikids.org, http://de.wikikids.org ... kid.wikipedia.org, kidipedia, www.wikidia.org, en.wikikids.org. Related projects: Merged with Wikichildren proposal

Comments

Talk:Wikikids
Differences between wikikids and wikichildren proposal: wikichildren offer to create different account for adults and children, the last having less privileges.
I would like to make a comment. I am a kid, and Simple English Wikipedia is simple enough for kids in my estimation. We also have wikijunior. To me, I also don't see it as good for the children's accounts to have less priveliges (sp?) because kids have the ability to do the same things adults do, like run their own wiki (that is mine). The encyclopædia should have no one below, no one above. Ionas68224 06:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Simple english WP only exists in english (yes !) They were no other simple language wikipedia opened after it. On the "demo" site in french, children don't have less privileges, the younger just are less likely to become sysop, that's all. Astirmays 18:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Simple English wikipedia is not necessarily for children, but for none native speakers of English. Redrocketboy 15:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is/was a simple French wikipedia I believe. The Flying Spaghetti Monster 22:19, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There is a need for a kids version of Wikipedia. The main problem is that there are articles on the main version that are not appropriate for kids. This is also true on the simple version. Even if the English is fine, the content is not fine. By having a separate namespace or domain name, it makes it easier for external filtering programs to filter out the main material while allowing access to the age appropriate material. I think that by having one wiki with different namespaces, the needs of the different groups could be satisfied. I also think that there is a need for 3 different groups: Lower Elementary (preschool - 4th grade -- lots of pictures and sound with little text); 4th grade - 8th grade (more story format); 9th grade - 12th grade (standard encylopedia in simple English, but with moderated content. I don't think that kids wikipedia needs to have separate privs than adults. The SOP of the site should be a set of standards with an editing board (adults that are in charge, not children) who decide what is and what is not appropriate content wise for the site. Then just let external filtering programs take care of the rest. If the content is marked with some standards, filtering should be an easy task.
Comments about the target ages. I think that the high school students should be encouraged to be the editors. If they can explain a topic to somebody else, it means that they truly understand that topic. 69.120.135.108 23:07, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. I don't think this project is necessary. I would support more Simple (language) on the Wikipedia namespace. Gosox5555 13:13, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

People interested joining Wikikids

(see http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_new_projects&oldid=451356#Wikichildren)

Gray Porpoise
Blue caterpillar
Seahen
Minun ^Spiderman
T®eebark
Necrophorus
TomK32 WR Internet
Ryan524
Scott Gall
Brisvegas
Richard Melo da Silva
Astirmays
"Sir James Paul
William.lethal
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
Greeves
Microchip08
DeSalvionjr
Moez ^talk
GrooveDog (Currently a WikiKids admin)
Alastor Moody
Hirohisat
Andrewjd
Redrocketboy
OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:40, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
ARkY // ¡HaBLaR!
--Qmwne235 23:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC) (Qmwne235)[reply]
Nothing444, Dont contact me in metawiki, only in wikipedia! 20:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC) [3][reply]
+sj | help with translation |+ 02:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel B 18:45, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Empire3131 01:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:zzmonty
Matema 08:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Barista Girl 03:09, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OlEnglish 04:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Pmlineditor ∞ 12:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Management team

Since MediaWiki has no interest in this project due to their "Freedom of Speech" issues, we, as a community, should seriously consider starting our own website that is not part of the MediaWiki corporation. Buying domain space that we can add code can cost as little as $50/year from Arvixe.com. That is a company that I have personally been a customer of, so I know their lowest cost for a development site (low bandwidth restrictions). I can handle the software part. Is there anybody else that can handle the business side in terms of setting up a non-profit corporation to accept donations? If you are interested in helping with the management side, please sign below with an indication of what skills you can offer.

Software Engineering Side (installation and modification of MediaWiki code)
- en:User:zzmonty
Business side (donation, taxes, non-profit status, etc.)
Educators, validation of content, age appropriateness of content
Editors (Need an editorial board on a children's site)
Administrators (Main policy makers and administrator of the site)
Graphic designers (design logo, color scheme, graphics, etc.

Why don't you guys start this Paedia in Wikia? You seem to have some momentum, Wikia wikis pay themselves by advertisement, and you may define your own rules, AFAIK. Check that option. Lwyx 04:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMed

Proposers	Messedrocker (June 17, 2006). Mailing list request: June 2006
Overview	A wiki dedicated to providing medical information to the public under a copyleft license Demos: http://editthis.info/wikimed
Other names	WikiMedicine. Potential domains : WikiMD seems to be taken, so WikiMed or WikiMedicine sound like options.. Related projects:

Comments

People interested joining

Medical dictionary wiki#Supporters http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Medical_dictionary_wiki#Supporters

TranslateWiki

Proposers	SPQRobin (17:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)). Mailing list request:[reply]
Overview	Translatewiki is a proposal for a wiki to translate words and sentences. This is based on Wiktionary, but there are differences (see the description page). You can compare it with a machine translator. Demos: http://translation.wikia.com/
Other names	TranslateWiki, WikiTranslate, (you can add a name!), Wikiterpret, Wiklanguage, Babelwiki. Potential domains : http://www.translatewiki.org (taken), http://www.wikitranslate.org (taken), http://www.babelwiki.org (taken by a geek. maybe (didn't contact) he will donate), wikiterpret.org (available), TranslatorWiki (http://translator.wikimedia.org/ will be perfectly fine for this project!). Related projects: BetaWiki

Interested people

To all the people that would like to join: See Requests for new languages/Wiktionary multilingual

Comments

Many related projects; see also the archives. +sj | help with translation |+ 02:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Some points:
1. Note that for finding simple words translations, you absolutely don't need to create a new wiki, Wiktionary is enough for that (and there already exists external tools that can look for words in all Wiktionaries).
2. Ideally, this wiki should have specific extensions, to really take into account the recognition of grammar, and allowing reordering sentences or finding inflexions where appropriate. Such extensions should also be able to get data from the existing Wiktionaries, with an internal cache for parsed and indexed Wiktionary articles.
3. In addition, I would not name your project "TranslateWiki" but "TranslatorWiki" (once it will be able to translate sentences, rather than just simple words), which would more appropriate and would avoid the confusion with BetaWiki (which is also known as TranslateWiki, but related to the localization of MediaWiki, its extensions, and some other open-source projects, and that should really have a better name than "Beta", probably something like "LocalizeWiki").
verdy_p 16:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiEarth

Proposers	F. Terran, mail (January 2007?). Mailing list request:
Overview	Collect maps in a wiki, to search and hold interesting locations in the world. It could eventually develope technology to translate maps to the same format Demos: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth
Other names	Wikimaps, Wikiatlas, Wiktlas, Maps, Geo, WikiEarth, Wikiography, Wikiplaces, wikiworld. Potential domains : wikiearth.org. Related projects: WikiMaps, Wikimapia, Commons Atlas project

People interested joining

Boguslav
--Desalvionjr 22:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Greeves
Richard Melo
Paul Noundre Nothbad
JJohnson1701 - definitely. Something where we can pull up a map of, say, England, and click on the language links to see the names in foreign languages, and click on that language's article on that city, village, or whatever. That'd be awesome. Perhaps it would need a list of the places, perhaps in system messages, and then a translation as well.
JosN A Wikiatlas exists on Commons already. That could be transferred to a new Wikiearth, Wikiatlas or whatever. A atlas with a lot of information does not seem logical to me for Commons, so, a new wiki would be preffered, I guess.
User:WikiEarth I really like the idea of having a wiki atlas, even before I saw this proposal. I made my own wiki called wikiearth if you want to check it out.
Jeepday
User:JeroenKon
TheFearow 21:38, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Seems great - in a wiki environment, we can provide some fantastic detail on places not otherwise discussed in traditional atlases.[reply]
Like Wikimapia? OK... Support. Ionas68224 07:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 01:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Anonymous Dissident - I like the name Wikimaps best of all. Anonymous Dissident 10:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Diez2 I like it. 18:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
--alexscho
Sounds like a good idea...--Kushan I.A.K.J 13:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Soxred93 01:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Adolfobs93 --Adolfobs93 15:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nn123645 08:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Empire3131 01:51, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Kuvaly

Comments

Relevant links: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth WikiEarth
Lots of related projects, before and after, both geowikis with active sites and atlas/map wikis. +sj | help with translation |+ 02:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like you'd run into copyright issues. Stifle 10:26, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Betawiki

Proposers	User:Steinninn - steinninn [at] steinninn.is (03:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)). Mailing list request: foundation-l[reply]
Overview	A wiki helping with translations other changes to the system messages. There is already a well structured site with a lot of activity, but it is not hosted by Wikimedia. This is a proposal to do that. More at Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia. The extension Translate is already part of the MediaWiki subversion repository and awaits (Wikimedia) developer approval before it can be added to Incubator. Demos: translatewiki.net (run by User:Nikerabbit)
Other names	Betawiki, Incubator. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Proposal dropped. Siebrand 12:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

People interested joining

Steinninn
Siebrand
Meno25
MF-Warburg
birdy
SPQRobin
Cbrown1023 talk
Aphaia I strongly support to integrate Betawiki and Incubator.
Purodha Blissenbach
Raymond de
Dundak
Thogo I'm already involved in the Betawiki, ack Aphaia.
Yyy
Ooswesthoesbes
Olaf Voljavo
Seb35
O—already translating
AlefZet
Kwj2772 -Translator
MichaelFrey
Alison
Piolinfax

Comments

Meta:Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia
Fine idea. +sj | help with translation |+ 02:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Interresting will be the future of projects like FreeCol. Will that stopped or extended when it runs as offical WMF project? -- MichaelFrey 23:23, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requests without demos

Community proposals

iWiki

Proposers	User:Princess Janay (16 May 2008). Mailing list request:
Overview	A safe social environment that allows people to talk to each other; to connect and interact. No adult content is discussed, etc... Everything is appropiate for people of all ages. Compare to Myspace, or Facebook. Demos: https://iwiki.wikidot.com/
Other names	iWiki/naming. Potential domains : iWiki.org, wikifriends.org, wikiconnect.org., wikime.org. Related projects:

People interested in joining

Princess Janay
winnetou12
User:Adolfobs93--Adolfobs93 16:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Merge with wikicommunity? +sj | help with translation |+ 04:13, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Culture proposals

Wikitainment Guides

Proposers	User:T-man - ajtorrepuerto@hotmail.com (17-oct-2006). Mailing list request: (HELP, please!!)
Overview	A wiki designed to focus on all contemporary entertainment fiction in different media. Closely tied with Wikipedia, it will contain all the pop cult info about characters, episodes, series, comic book issues, movies, singers, bands, labels and videogames that is often labeled as "un-encyclopedic" by deletionist Wikipedia editors.Wikipedia could move the information there. This would save a great deal of edit conflicts between Deletionist and inclusionist editors. Demos: http://www.pop-cult.org/Wikitainment/
Other names	Wikitainment Guide, Wikitainment, the Pop-cult Guides. Potential domains : www.wikitainment.com. Related projects: wikia:entertainment

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Comments

It will be divided into classifications: Video Games, Television, Movies, Comics, Music, Radio, Toys, Sports, People, Technology, Fashion, Books.
Another possibility is instead of creating a whole new wiki, creating this wiki within Wikipedia as a siamese twin sister project of Wikipedia, or a sub-wiki.
Well there is already wikia:entertainment and wikia:armchairgm (sports), wikia:opinions (politics) and much there. Matthias 16:26, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Judging by the discussions and current situation on en.wikipedia, there seems to be demand for it. On the other hand, the mission of the Foundation is education rather than entertainment, isn't it? --B. Wolterding 15:04, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

People interested joining

T-man
Sir James Paul
--Crna Gora (en-wiki)
Keith @ English and 中文
Jayden54
Saponification
Maxipuchi
Greeves
User:desalvionjr
--alexscho
Peregrine Fisher 00:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC) We need this bad. If it goes anywhere, please contact me on wikipedia because I don't check meta very often.[reply]
Gosox5555

Wikiwine

Proposers	Giacomo Bordiga (). Mailing list request:
Overview	Collecting information, vintages, ratings, history, etc, about wines (not generic wines as already done in wikipedia). That cannot be done in wikipedia because most of the wines are not of encyclopedic importance. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : wikiwine.org registered but not used, wikieno.org (eno like enology) free.. Related projects:

Comments

People interested joining

Wikidocumentary

Proposers	Savant-fou (April, 30th 2009 / 30 avril 2009). Mailing list request:
Overview	(French) Un wiki dédié aux documentaires vidéos produits par des contributeurs. On peut avoir ainsi avoir une collection organisée et structurée d' émissions, de documentaires (ex: l'espace, etc). (English) A wiki dedicated to video documentary produced by contributors. Demos: http://www.wiki-site.com/index.php/Wikidocumentary
Other names	. Potential domains : en.wikidocumentary.org , fr.wikidocumentary.org , .... Related projects:

Comments/Commentaires

People interested joining/Contributeurs intéressés

Restoration.wikimedia.org

Proposers	User:GerardM, User:Durova (25-01-2009). Mailing list request:
Overview	Provide a dedicate environment for the restoration of material that can illustrate our projects Demos: There are many featured pictures, there is much work waiting to be worked on ..
Other names	Restoration.. Potential domains : restoration.wikimedia.org. Related projects: Commons, Wikipedia

People Interested Joining

Supporters can be found here

Wikisongs

Hello to everybody. I am Or from the Hebrew Wikipedia and from the Hebrew Wiktionary and I want to manage a new project- Wikisong about singers and their songs. who can help me? Or12 19:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

People Interested Joining

Discussion

What is the proposed scope? Is the intent to have this multi-language, or Hebrew, or a select group of languages? Do you plan to have lyrics if pd, and if not pd how do you pan to handle that? Is this current artists and their songs, modern history, or are you planning to include folk songs, traditional songs, etc? Thanks, sorry for so many questions. KillerChihuahua 12:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiGames

Games from all cultures accumulating in one place, incuding directions.

Original Research

WikiThink

Proposers	User:Dps - wikithinkadmin at gmail dot com (2007-01-14). Mailing list request:
Overview	Open research wiki. Where all "Original Research" articles that don't make it to WikiPedia go! Setup research topics and launch brainstorming discussions. A place to share great ideas in all fields of science. These ideas that are even in a premature stage but with constructive criticism, collaboration, interaction and synergy they can become the next breakthroughs. This is not a wiki for things that exist, but for the things to come! Update: this project has been quite warmly welcome by many, however it never acquired a critical mass needed to take off. I would like suggestions on what to do. Demos: http://wikithink.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page
Other names	. Potential domains : wikithink.org (not registered). Related projects:

People interested joining

Dps
Desalvionjr 22:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cbdorsett 06:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rohar1 13:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Pi72 16:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Orthologist
Diego Marcos
Greeves
Pharamund
--Tcbmotors 17:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Karpeth 18:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redrocketboy
User:Abyssal_leviathin
User:Nahraana
Orres rulez! Deevrod 14:16, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

discussion @ http://wikithink.wiki-site.com/index.php/WikiThink_Research

WikiBrain

Proposers	Andrewdt85 - email: andrewdt85@hotmail.com (5/26/06). Mailing list request:
Overview	This would basically be like Wikipedia- a communal brain, a pool of knowledge and wisdom- but this Wiki would be a place for all that knowledge and wisdom that's a.) not good enough for Wikipedia ('List of Pickup Lines') and b.) not verifiable enough for Wikipedia; it would contain opinions often (not the same as Wikiopinions proposed above), and debatable material, so users of this site would have to be able to not freak out about biased knowledge/wisdom. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Comments

Talk:WikiBrain

People interested in joining

Andrewdt85
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
Greeves
DeSalvionjr
Karpeth 18:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arts/media-related proposals

WikiMusic

Proposers	TDN169 (13 December 2006). Mailing list request:
Overview	To provide a place for midi files, sheet music, lyrics and notes for existing tunes, which have lost copyright, or new arrangements or compositions released under the GFDL or Creative Commons. Demos: Musikwiki (de)
Other names	WikiScore, WikiMusic, WikiTune WikiMIDI. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Comments

Use my talk page Talk:TDN169
Should be part of Wikisource. Pcu123456789 03:57, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to mention that this is a perennial suggestion to have some project related to the formation and distribution of musical content, with suggestions to have different markup systems within the MediaWiki software and to even be able to edit MIDI files or musical scores. There certainly are some interesting things that could be done with music in a collaborative fashion, and this particular project should not be completely dismissed. --Roberth 17:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
(In response to Pcu123456789) This should not be part of Wikisource. When people think of a library, they generally think of books, not sheet music. Putting this at Wikisource would cause it to be neglected. This should be it's own project. Galanskov 21:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, my public library has a whole wing filled with sheet music, scores and scripts. Perfectly reasonable contents for a source repository, although it is probably true that having this as a separate project would probably guarantee more traffic and more care.--starfarmer*comm 10:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Although it is going in a slightly different direction, you might want to take a look at [4] Topic is "Facebook choir/band/something like" in the Facebook group "Join this if you've played music with someone in it..." The group of ~35,000 members is looking into ways to collaboratively record (and potentially write) music. I think it could be tremendous if som:eone familiar with how to organize such a project got in touch with this group! Cmadler 16:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IMSLP is a wiki based on the free sheet music on the internet with tremendous coverage, having extremely obscure pieces and most if not all of the main composers' works. The subject is not narrow, in my opinion, but many people could not participate without knowledge of notation or composition. Alton 04:18, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IMSLP has some problems now. Maybe Wikimedia should help? Kj 19:45, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since IMSLP still has problem, may be it is time to revive the discussion on this project? see Wikimusic_II and WikiScores 82.124.131.76 21:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice to have an easy way to make sheet music and MIDI files (maybe even with the same code). I've never heard of IMSLP, but I was using [5], which seems somewhat similar, recently, I found some music on it that I wished to play, but it was formated wrong for my instrument. It would have been nice have an easy way to change this, such as a wiki. J kasd 01:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I love this project. Composition by all people. --Szawatschenski 01:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Since IMSLP is up again, I think it would be an even more interesting prospect to try to convince IMSLP to join the Wikimedia foundation as WikiMusic.Theunixgeek 11:48, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've been doing a lot of work lately transcribing out-of-copyright music, and this would be great, to be able to upload my transcriptions somehow and save others the trouble. I think this makes sense as a some sort of sub-project of Wikisource. cmadler 20:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

People interested

Guillermo
User:Lifelike23
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
User:ataricom
Greeves
Galanskov
Bernstein2291
AndrewSvet
--alexscho
Tosão 23:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
J kasd
Voz da Verdade 21:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nn123645 12:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Szawatschenski 01:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sloyment 01:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
--RudolfSimon 22:33, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
cmadler 20:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
NDCompuGeek 20:33, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinguistica

Proposers	Anonymous 1 (). Mailing list request:
Overview	A free wiki about linguistics (grammar [syntax, usage, PoS] and orthography [spelling and pronunciation]). It will be divided into the subsections for grammar and orthography, and sub-subsections for spelling, phon(et)ics, syntax, and usage. Basically, Wikiproject Linguistics (which grew too fast), and the Linguistics sections for Wikibooks and Wikisource all combined into one, plus a unique section for etymologies. This'll probably grow big, too! Demos:
Other names	WikiLinguistica or just Linguistica, subsections named below. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Comments

comment at Talk:WikiLinguistica

Proposer

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Anonymous TALK

WikiRadio

Proposers	User:paraxon - admin@paraxon.biz (19.03.2007). Mailing list request:
Overview	A place, where emerging artists can send in own creations, which are selected from and played through an audio stream. Demos:
Other names	Wiki Audio Network, Radiowiki. Potential domains : www.wikiradio.org (suggestion) www.radiowiki.org. Related projects:

Comments

Talk:Paraxon/Wikiradio
Why exactly do you need to make a site like this in Wiki format? --Cmelbye 22:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Education-related proposals

Wikiversity for real Universities

Proposers	miostyle (7 january 2008). Mailing list request:
Overview	A Wikiversity for each real university, designed like common data-base of digital learning courses based on real learning courses in university, being digitizing by students while studying Demos: v:ru:Wikiversity-NSU, v:ru:Talk:Wikiversity-NSU
Other names	Wikiversity-NAME_OF_UNIVERSITY. Potential domains : nsu.ru.wikiversity.org. Related projects:

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miostyle
If you could advise what moments i should pay attention especially if im creating wikiversity based on real university? It should be just portal in wikiversity.beta(Becouse language is Russian) or better be self-dependent project based on wikimedia engine downloaded from mediawiki website?

How to integrate my initiative of digitizing the real universtity courses to wikipedia format with main website wikiversity.org? For example history of computing course in our university is different from existed here already, so i should to do second version of it? --miostyle 14:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I like the idea. It could bring some more life into Wikiversity and attract academic editors for Wikimedia projects. It would also save money and time for university sysadmins. Matthias 16:08, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ExchangeWiki

Proposers	tikris (30 November 2006). Mailing list request:
Overview	A Wiki for all the students interested in student exchange. Demos:
Other names	ExchangeWiki, WikiExchange, WikiXChange. Potential domains : en.exchangewiki.org. Related projects:

Comments

Talk:Exchangewiki

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WikiCurriculum

Proposers

Marty - weissman.marty at gmail.com (September 1, 2007). Mailing list request:

Overview

A semantic framework for the development of flexible curricula and texts, in high-school mathematics (Algebra I - Precalculus) to begin with. It will be structured around three core concepts: blocks, facets, and threads. A block will be a unit of mathematical or pedagogical material (such as solving systems of linear equations). A facet will be a way in which to view the material (for the student, teacher, professional developer, mathematician, math historian, curriculum-developer, etc...). A thread will be a collection of blocks, linked with a purpose in mind, such as a coherent Algebra I curriculum, or a mathematically rigorous development of plane Geometry, or a short course for middle-school teachers.

Using semantic data (RDF triples), not only will the mathematical content be available, but also there will be information about which mathematical material must be understood before which other material (pedagogical dependency), as well as logical/mathematical dependency, and which problems assess/require which concepts. In addition, semantic data would encode which blocks correspond to NCTM (national) U.S. standards and state (California, Texas, Massachusetts, for example) standards. Standards from other countries will also be added.

In this way, a school district can build a curriculum, and perhaps a textbook, by snapping together blocks, ensuring all standards are satisfied, and ensuring that the material is presented in a pedagogically sound way. Or, for example, a teacher educator can build a curriculum for a short professional development course. Or, for example, a homeschooling parent can develop a sound curriculum for their child.
Demos:

Other names

. Potential domains : .
Related projects:

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Marty (proposer)

Comments

What's wrong with wikiverstity? it's for all ages (pre-school and up). Empire3131 22:36, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProgramming

Proposers	DJ Jeri (2 November 2007). Mailing list request:
Overview	A Wiki for beginner with programming in Windows (later maybe in Linux). Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : edu.wikiprogramming.org. Related projects: Subject:Computer programming at Wikibooks, Windows Programming Wikibook

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DJ Jeri (proposer)

Comments

There are already Wikibooks and Wikiversity courses covering the topic. Matthias 16:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FAQ

WikiAnswers

Proposers	ElectricalExperiment" (28/5/2008). Mailing list request:
Overview	Users Ask questions and other user answer them. Simular to [http://answers.yahoo.com Yahoo! Answers. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : http://www.wikianswers.org. Related projects: WikiSMS, Answer Wikia

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Comments

There is an existing Wikia that already does the job and it's also called Wikianswers. Matthias 16:05, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History-related proposals

Victims of Soviet Repressions Memorial

Proposers	Kmweber (04:11, 24 December 2008 (UTC)). Mailing list request: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-December/048286.html[reply]
Overview	All victims of the repressions carried out by the Soviet Union's government Demos: none yet
Other names	Victims of Soviet Repressions Memorial. Potential domains : sovietvictims.org (calling the domain "wikivictims" or somesuch just seems inappropriate in this case). Related projects: none

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Comments

WikiTimeLine

This proposal has been fabricated into a MediaWiki extension!

Proposers	DontPanic (22 April 2008). Mailing list request:
Overview	Begin and End time of events or people can be added to Wikipedia through a template which produces a link to WikiTimeLine. Those events or people will be added to the timeline of WikiTimeLine (by following this template-link) and can be viewed on this timeline on which they are displayed. An example of how it can look like is WikiTimeScale, but the events and people (and their begin and end dates as well as their description) wouldn't be stored at WikiTimeLine but at Wikipedia, and would be managed there. Demos:
Other names	WikiTimeLine. Potential domains : http://www.wikitimeline.net (already registered by proposer, currently redirecting to WikiTimeScale but may be used for this project instead if accepted). Related projects: WikiTimeLine at MediaWiki.org

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Comments

See commentary

Wikidate

Proposers	Shyam ^(T/C) (October 29, 2006). Mailing list request:
Overview	The project will comprise of all the dates. The date page would consist all the historic events, births, deaths, future plans, present news on that particular day. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : en.wikidate.org. Related projects: Similar to Wikitimeline and Wikihistory

People interested joining

Shyam ^(T/C)
Desalvionjr 22:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikihistory

Proposers	User:Armanaziz (). Mailing list request:
Overview	50,000B.C. - 31 Dec 2006. There will be a dynamic timeline starting from prehistoric extending upto current year end. Users will post historical events in the timeline on specific dates. There would be several mandatory criteria on each event like Geography, Event Type, Significance etc so that anyone can filter the timeline based on the criteria and get a customized chronological list of relevant events of interest. Demos: elementfx w/ads
Other names	Wikihistory, Wikitimeline, Wikichronology. Potential domains : wikihistory.org. Related projects:

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User:master_flosse
User:Armanaziz
User:Snillet
User:FreshFruitsRule
User:Momodamonkey
User:chris10123
User:CrnaGora
User:Desalvionjr
User:maxipuchi
User:Hirohisat
Julian Rodriguez Orihuela
SabineCretella
Thogo
Thunderhead
Tosão 23:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Kuvaly

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Language-related proposals

Paraphrasopedia/Wikiphraso

Proposers	User:maxipuchi (25 February 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	A place where traductors create accounts and pages where they show how many languages they can traduct. Other people could get into the wiki and ask for traductions. Demos: none yet
Other names	Wikiphraso, Paraphrasowiki, Paraphrasopedia. Potential domains : {{{domains}}}. Related projects: none

people interested in joining

User:maxipuchi

Comments

I am confused. In what way would this be a wiki? (and traduct, traductors, and traductions are not English words)--Yair rand 17:19, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidioma

Proposers	User:FCLeste (13 April 2007). Mailing list request:
Overview	A place where people teach each other it's own language. Language specifications, from orthographic rules, grammatic rules, pronuncitation or simple examples from any language are presented to help one learn the language, may he be a true beginner in that language, or just looking for some rules to improve his writing or speaking. Let's rebuild the Babel tower and hope not to be punished again. Demos:
Other names	wikidioma, wikiworld, wibabel. Potential domains : www.wikidioma.org. Related projects:

Comments

Talk:Wikidioma

People interested joining

SPQRobin 15:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Sounds good, will join, but how are you going to get pronounceation right? Typos would also be learnt as typos, etc. Microchip08 18:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tosão 23:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilingo

Proposers	User:Tcbmotors (May 24, 2007). Mailing list request:
Overview	A place for people to learn new languages. It would be formatted into lessons. Demos:
Other names	Wikilingo, Wikispeak. Potential domains : en.wikilingo.org. Related projects:

People interested joining

Tcbmotors
EVula

Comments

This is already covered by Wikibooks --Yair rand 15:52, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLanguageSaver

Proposers	User:Alex1453 (7 April 2009). Mailing list request:
Overview	With more and more languages facing a dwindling number of users/speakers, there is a viable possibility that a wealth of knowledge and culture could be lost forever. In order to combat the danger of extinction, this proposal would strive to provide a detailed database of threatened and nearly extinct languages. As opposed to typical Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles, which are fantastic yet often single-faceted resources, the WikiLanguageSaver project would attempt to expand on these resources, by including information on such topics as vocabulary, pronunciation, and if available, written works. In addition to working under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation, this project also has the potential to attract a large amount of outside support through various language/cultural preservation organizations. Demos: No current demo
Other names	Wiki LanguageSaver. Potential domains : en.wikils.org, en.wikilanguagesaver.org. Related projects:

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Comments: Talk:WikiLanguageSaver

List-related proposals

Wikinac

Proposers	Gary123 (wikialmanac), Ryan524 (24 Jan 2005). Mailing list request:
Overview	A wiki World Almanac, an almanac similar to the Book of Lists and People's Almanac created by Irving Wallace, his son David Wallechinsky, and daughter Amy Wallace. It would include interesting facts, obscure historical incidents, interesting links and other esoteric and unknown knowledge. Demos: http://wikinac.info.tm
Other names	Wikinac, Wikialmanac, WikiSignifica, WikiPeople'sAlmanac. Potential domains : en.wikinac.org, en.wikialmanac.org, en.WikiSignifica.org. Related projects:

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Comments

http://wikinac.info.tm (i am running this one, if accepted i'll move the db over.)
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Lists , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Almanac

Wikilists

Proposers	(). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Link to request on mailing list: Not yet made
Naming suggestions: Wikilists, Wikilist, Wikicollections, Wikisets
Domain name: http://www.wikilists.org (not registered, although wikilist.org, wikilists.com and wikilists.net are)
Demo: WikiaSite:List
Scope: Lists of things with related properties, which may or may not be appropriate for other projects (due to original research or "listcruft").
Details: Wikilists (2nd version). A previous attempt was made at Wikilists, but it was not developed much
Commets: Talk:Wikilists (2nd version)
Proposer: User:ConMan
Date: 3 October 2006
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WikiTrivia

Proposers	(). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Naming suggestions: WikiTrivia, WikiCulture
Domain name: none yet
Scope

WikiTrivia is a proposed offshoot of Wikipedia. WikiTrivia pages will be made up of lists of trivia items collected regarding any and all topics.

This project is a response to the perceived negative impact of trivia lists in Wikipedia articles (see Wikipedia's Trivia guideline). WikiTrivia would serve as a place where Trivia sections in Wikipedia articles could be moved and retained, for those who are interested in reading and maintaining them, while no longer hindering Wikipedia's efforts to remain encyclopedic in article quality.

Details: WikiTrivia
Comments: Talk:WikiTrivia
Proposer: Equazcion (Talk • Contribs)
Date: 00:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
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Equazcion (Talk • Contribs)
(proposer)
SamBC (Talk) 17:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
David Witchell 17:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DHowell 01:11, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Karpeth 18:56, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 15:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC) Much support for the idea; my focus will have to remain on Wikipedia though. Would like to see this succeed, due to expected benefits for both trivia users/fans, and Wikipedia.[reply]
Ixfd64 20:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reference-related proposals

Wikonstitution

Proposers	is a wiki that collects all the articles and laws of each country and each book of laws and that instead it was translated into Spanish, German, etc.. is divided into countries such as: mex, usa, ger, etc. (). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : wikilaw.org, wikiconstitution.org, wikilaws.org, wikilegal.org. Related projects:

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikilaw, wikilegal, wikilex or wikirights
Domain name
Scope: Constitutions may form the basis of a nation's laws, but they are followed by laws, regulations, ordinances, judicial interpretations and precedents, etc. Very hard to keep track of what is still legal and what isn't. Additionally, there are still laws on the books that need to be revisited. Some are ridiculous by today's standards, some are no longer politically correct. This project is to compile every national, international, state, and municipal law, as well as a database of court decisions and precedents, together with a legal encyclopedia for explanation of laws, regulations, rights and obligations, for the use of professionals and lay people.
Details: [[6]]
Comments: [[7]]

Good project idea, the legal system is an indecipherable maize for most people, anything to help people understand their legal

Proposer: User:diogod – denczuk@gmail.com
Date: September 24, 2008
People interested in joining

Adolfo --Adolfobs93 16:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nn123645 08:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC) --[reply]
Spurio 20:31, 21 April 2009 --
NDCompuGeek 20:35, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikibibliography

Proposers	(). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Link to request on mailing list: No
Naming suggestions: Wikibibliography, Wikigraphy
Domain name: http://www.wikibibliography.org
Scope: Even in our internet age, books are very important source of knowledge. The biggest problem is to find them. Even the catalogues of the greatest libraries are far from being complete. But, as experience shows, wikicommunity can do what great institutions cannot. The aim of wikibibliography is to become the great bibliographical catalogue. Each book will get an article with such information as author, publisher, year of publishing, ISBN. And of course, each article will have categories (by book's language, by topic..). It will be very useful for any researcher.
Details: WikiBibliography
Comments: Talk:WikiBibliography
Proposer: Kneiphof
Date: 5 August 2006
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Wikipolitics

Proposers	User:Spurio - dr.sanches@ymail.com (21 April 2009). Mailing list request:
Overview	Public service for voters, cataloging, developing, and indexing the public life of politicians. Demos:
Other names	Politicians, WikiPolitics, Wikipoliticians. Potential domains : . Related projects: Wikonstitution, Wikipol

Summary: In search for a better world, we should seek for politicians. Politics should have an history indexed for we, voters, to search. We voters would like to know: Is he a good politician? Is he a bad politician? With this project, consisting of mainly indexing pages linking to cities, people can keep track of politicians and their public life in any politics related tasks.

Details: See details in my "User Talk" page
Proposer: User:Spurio - dr.sanches@ymail.com

Let's us fighting against corruption in politics. Let us unite efforts for a better world.

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Wikiography

Proposers	User:AndreasLuft (2009-05-11). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos: wikiography.wikia.com
Other names	Wikiography. Potential domains : wikiography.org. Related projects:

Wikidata project

Proposers	User:Marcus Cyron - kenwilliams-1ATwebDOTde (2007-11-06). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : wikidata.org or de.wikidata.org. Related projects: wikilists, wikidata

People interested in joining

alexscho
Desalvionjr - I had this idea the other day, I am able to be an sysop for this project
I like the name Wikilists more but I support this idea, too. --Morten Haan 19:33, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
--Travelplanner 10:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

User Talk:Marcus Cyron/Wikidata

See also Wikistatistics.

Very good idea. =) — Delhovlyn (talk) — [feel free to correct my bad English! =) ] 20:38, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also Proposal:A_central_repository_of_all_language_independent_data--Travelplanner 10:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikistatistics

Wikipol

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: wikipol
Domain name: xx (state of registration)
Scope: Servicing political communities in developping and updating wikibased political programs
Details: wikipol OR [- a proposal for a new project of wikimedia]
Comments: Talk:Wikipol
Proposer: User:JosJ - email'info@xs2jj.nl'
Date: 21-02-2009

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WikiBiographies (wikibio)

I opened [8] so that trivial biographies, and trivial facts, and trivial events unsuited for wikipedia, can be entered.

Here you will find verified details about people who may be not that important to the general public, but definitely important to a certain family or nationality. This wiki will host seemingly unimportant details, facts and even rumors, as long as a source can be verified, and as long as the fact is not disputed and proven to be defacement or against known fact.

Here you will also find disputes and discussions about the biographies, and a history of the biography making, and of the shown facts (pictures, books etc) - a meta biography. I hope this succeeds, and more important, I hope I am not doing something which already exists... Pashute 16:36, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikicountries

Proposers	User:Esteban97 (27/12/2008 17:21 UTC). Mailing list request:
Overview	A complete encyclopedia about every country. Demos: Wikicountries
Other names	Wikicountries/naming. Potential domains : . Related projects:

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Esteban97

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Wikimedia-related proposals

Commons Force

Proposers	JovanCormac (September 6, 2009). Mailing list request: foundation-l
Overview	A wiki used to coordinate a force of volunteers who actively educate people about the concepts of public domain and the Creative Commons. (see description page for details) Demos: none yet
Other names	Commons Force. Potential domains : force.wikimedia.org. Related projects: Wikimedia Outreach, a proposal for a project with which there is some overlap

Comments

Talk:CommonsForce

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JovanCormac 17:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiscope

Proposers	Daniel (2 June 2006). Mailing list request: foundation-l
Overview	A viewer (non-Wikimedian)-based page which ties together the various Wikimedia projects. Demos:
Other names	Wikiscope, Wikiview, Wikiwatch, Wikshelf (see Wikiscope/Name), Wikicue. Potential domains : en.wikiscope.org, de.wikiscope.org etc. (available as of 14/6/06). Related projects:

Comments

Talk:Wikiscope

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Wikimedia Outreach

Proposers	User:Eloquence - erik AT wikimedia DOT org (January 6, 2007). Mailing list request: [9]
Overview	Similar to efforts like spreadfirefox.com, the purpose of this portal would be to allow Wikimedians to come together and discuss ways to increase the impact of Wikimedia Foundation activities by reaching out to individuals, organizations, companies, and so on. Demos:
Other names	Wikimedia Outreach, Spread Wikimedia. Potential domains : outreach.wikimedia.org. Related projects:

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Mobile and offline wikis

WikiMobile

Proposers	7cows (28 - December - 2006). Mailing list request:
Overview	a Mobile Wiki page for each Wiki page. This function would allows users to select a summary of text for users on the go (like mobiles) or using devices with limited screen space. Main reason why this would be more sucessful then google: Users on Cellphones (mobiles) generally are paying for Internet data traffic, slow connection and limited small screen to sift through wanted info. A google search would most likely turn a lot of unwanted websites that don't address info that user is specifically looking for and not in a mobile friendly format. If a WikiMobile search was put in place all mobile search requests would be easy to access and a super convenient tool to have on the fly. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : WAPwiki.mobi. Related projects:

Comments

Discussion --> User_talk:7cows

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7cows
Thunderhead
Desalvionjr - I am able to be a sysop for this project
Robypedia

WikiSMS

Proposers	Lord Anubis (25 December 2007 (merry xmas)). Mailing list request:
Overview	'A wiki derived from all wiki projects comprising 160 character text explaining various topics/defining various meanings/identifying various people. Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : wikisms.org. Related projects: Texperts, AQA

Comments

Well, We all know w:en:Texperts and AQA. These companies respond to SMS questions from the UK via a shortcode. So you text in your question, and you get back an answer in 160 characters. "Who is Bill Gates", or "What is turkey stuffing made of", or "What's the date for easter this year". A similar (perhaps commercial too) wiki can be made, where articles are limited to 1 text (160 characters), or maybe two, such that a person can text in their question ("Bill Gates?", "Turkey Stuffing?", "Easter 2008?") to WikiSMS, and would get the answer immediately. The answers will be set by the community, it will be less work than existing projects, and we already have millions of articles which can be used to extract info from to fit into one SMS. Something to think about !! and dont forget me when you start making millions with this idea wikimedia foundation !!! ;).

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Karpeth
--That wouldn't be a project but a search interface over existing projects. Platonides 20:57, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unsorted proposals

Please help keep this page organized by sorting your proposal into one of the above categories!

Essentialpedia

Proposers	User:Mikael Häggström (22 October 2008). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	A shorter and more concise Wikipedia, containing only the most essential. A rule of thumb may be that everything in it must be worth the time for any layman to learn by heart. Demos: none yet
Other names	Essentialpedia, Concisepedia. Potential domains : {{{domains}}}. Related projects: none

People Interested Joining

Mikael Häggström
SwirlBoy39
User:Geoff Plourde
Grebenkov
Roux
Microchip08 (as long as there's no drama)
The Flying Spaghetti Monster - Won't be super active - have commitments at Simple.
Deevrod (I'd like to open Russian part of Essentialpedia and edit it, but only English is OK).
Robypedia
DavidWS I'd love to work on it. It's a very smart project idea.
Giorgio Gonnella I think this is a very smart project, and would result in a big success. I'm not sure about how much energy I could invest in it, due to my many interests, but I would contribute for sure.
norro I like the idea very much

Comments

The only problem I have is surely, being limited to concise articles on important subjects, eventually editors will run out of things to write and then it will cease being a wiki. Because at some point, everything important enough to be included will have been written to the highest standard and then what will we do? Either it simply stops or it includes non-concise/non-important articles and then it stops being Essentialpedia. Thoughts? The Flying Spaghetti Monster 22:25, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Would not this project simply be offering a subset of Wikipedia? Essential topics should be treated thoroughly in Wikipedia, there is no real need to duplicate (or divide) writing efford, skills, etc. Thus creating Essentialpedia is:
1. selecting the essential,
  1. This goal seems unrealistic to me. There are simply no clear-cut criteria to determine what is "essential". The project will crash in edit wars discussing whether some article is "essential". Better stick to wikipedias as comprehensive as each individual language allows, but more concise by concentrating in the introductions. Lwyx 00:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
2. improving Wikipedia articles on these essential topics to meet or exceed Essentialpedia standards,
3. present them in Essentialpedia manner, and style.
  --Purodha Blissenbach 21:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
At some point I thought about proposing or joining something like a Concisepedia; now I see that it may be implemented as a Project within the individual language wikipedias following these criteria:
1. by concentrating in the introduction to each individual article, so that the rest might only be an expansion;
2. perhaps by devising a skin, so that it filters in the main intro and only gives access to the rest of the article on demand; this skin might be the default for WAP access, so perhaps the extra domain only points to that skin.

IMNSHO this way we avoid to duplicate tasks with individual language wikipedias. In conclusion, I'm not joining it, and I discourage people from joining. Sorry. Lwyx 00:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like a terrible idea. This content can already be hosted on the various Wikipedia language editions. Just extract the content you want. — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 06:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We already have Simple Wikipedia, which doesn't get a lot of contributors (I think), and there is Veropedia, which is intended to "collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time (another project that seems stalled). So no, I don't think we need yet another fork. John Broughton 22:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This good idea might be addressed by a scale already present in current (English) WP. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team's "importance of topic" scale is used widely in many WikiProjects. Picking up "High"-rated articles should do the job. / If the need for a separate site is high, (that is, higher than my imagination,) I think it would work better as an automated mirror of the current WP, not a separate project. The Essentialpedia editors would only maintain the list of articles that would be mirrored. / Then again, I still believe that this Essentialpedia idea could be worked out within the current WP framework. --朝彦 (Asahiko) 16:19, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I object to this. Its function is already covered by Wikipedia and working towards these goals would be less productive as a separate project. Fewer, broader Wikimedia projects allow for greater efficiency and greater potential. There should only be separate projects if they cover different, non-mutual types of content, which is reflected in the current make-up of Wikimedia projects: an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a media repository, a text repository, &c. --Oldak Quill 19:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Query: how would this project differ from Simple Wikipedia? --Kralizec! 19:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We would assume that everyone reading is fluent in English (I'd imagine), and simply concentrate on making it concise, not on basic English. DavidWS 19:14, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiwireless

Proposers	(). Mailing list request:
Overview	Demos:
Other names	. Potential domains : . Related projects:

Link to request on mailing list
Naming suggestions: Wikiwireless, Wikicellular, Wikivoip, Wikicache,
Domain name: ? (state of registration)
Scope: voice recognition wikipedia search queries to mobil phones
Details: similar to "GOOG 411" this project would have computers linked to voice recognition software answer calls by cell phone users on the go. The user in theory, would call in the search query, it would be transmitted to the wikipedia or whichever product wanted(wikinews,wikicommons,etc), found, verified for accuracy, then a list is offered for which aspects of the article wanted read by the computer voice, and voilà! success! or emailed or texted too.
Proposer: User:wikiwong - maximov13@gmail.com
Date: 20:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
People interested in joining

--That wouldn't be a project but an interface over the existing projects. Platonides 20:56, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikicode

Proposers	Ryan524 (29 December 2006). Mailing list request: foundation-l
Overview	A repository of source code for any programming language released under GPL or other agreed upon license. Demos: http://wikicode.wiki-site.com/
Other names	. Potential domains : wikicode.org (unreg). Related projects:

People interested joining

Comments

Some interest among Erik Garrison, Mako, and others has been murmured since later 2007 +sj | help with translation |+ 02:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiVote

Proposers	User:Openforbusiness (October 28, 2006). Mailing list request:
Overview	An online democracy, where people create polls, and vote. Kind of like http://wipoll.com/wipol/, only categorized, and easier to use. Demos: http://wipoll.com/wipol/
Other names	WikiVote, WikiDemocracy, Wikipolls, W.O.D (Wiki Online Democracy), Wikiocracy. Potential domains : en.wikivote.org (not registered). Related projects: Wikicracy

Comments

No! A big, flat out no. Wikimedia Foundation are for free knowledge, not polls. I don't see how "anyone can edit" is special for a thing like polls. Also, a true democracy does not "vote on consensus". Ionas68224 07:00, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - per Ionas68224. I don't think we need a everyone can edit poll. Hirohisat 06:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but Oppose, the entire idea of the Wikimedia foundation is for free knowledge, not polls, also Wikimedia is NOT a place to test democracy!--Kushan I.A.K.J 07:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeGeo.plrd 19:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose--Yair rand 17:10, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikinnovate

Proposers	James Hornitzky (1 December 2008). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Innovatia is an open innovation initiative aimed at gathering and promoting ideas and innovation. This is the place to post any of your ideas, or help others realize their own. We don't expect you to post your best Nobel prize winning ideas here (although we certainly encourage you to), but you can post all those ideas that you think may be needed, never had time for or maybe you think aren't that great... because someone else might! Demos: http://innovatia.org
Other names	Innovatia or Wikinova. Potential domains : en.wikinnovate.org or wikinova.org (not registered). Related projects: none

Many people got some new and practical idea, which would be interesting for beginning a new technological device, a new business, any interesting innovation in any domain.

This new wiki would allow anybody to develop this idea.

It would be a free GNU publication of otherwise patentable new ideas...

People Interested Joining

James Hornitzky
User:Dr Bernard Auriol[[10]]; [site du Dr Auriol]
NDCompuGeek 20:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) -- kind of a "wikiscrum"? ALSO - any specialty, or pretty much "anything goes"?[reply]

Wikiblogs

Proposers	User:deevrod (2 January 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Blog platform based on wiki technology Demos: none yet
Other names	Wikiblogs. Potential domains : wikiblogs.org. Related projects: none

People interested in joining

Deevrod

Comments

Already existing, see the Wikia blog feature. Matthias 16:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is a great idea if it would have eternally open polls but it is also so open to swamping by sockpuppetry and comments. ~ R.T.G 19:32, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move Wikipedia

Proposers	User:Theornamentalist (1/12/2009). Mailing list request:
Overview	Move Wikipedia under a different database and substitute it with a more classic definition of an Encyclopedia. Demos: none
Other names	none. Potential domains : none. Related projects: Essentialpedia

People interested joining

User:Theornamentalist

Wikivolution

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (30 September 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Documentation of the development (evolution) of Wikipedia, you can browse through the former Versions of Wikipedia f. ex. 2004, 2005, 2006..., you see the new changes: new uploaded pictures are in the category new uploaded pictures and the new articles in the category new articles, these are functions which are already in Wikipedia, but here everything would be better categorised and collected in one the Wikivolution Wiki, you see the dataamount of the different versions former, new ones, statistics about the user are made, how much data the user uploaded, how much articles, words he wrote on Wikipedia. Its a project to document the Wikipedia for future generations. Demos: none yet
Other names	wikivolution. Potential domains : wikivolution.org. Related projects: none

People interested in joining

[[User:|User:]]

Comments

What would be the purpose of this project? All former revisions are saved as are lists of user contributions. You just click the History tab at the top of the page to see old revisions. Why would we need a separate project to document changes? --Yair rand 14:21, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thaught that project as a documentation of the wikipedia, the more Wikipedia grows the more Information it contains, and the more unclear it gets, so by creating a project beside where the evolution of the wiki is stored and documented, it would be first more clear, and you would also have better possibility to search for specific changes, by categories, Time, date,... You could see statistiscs, user related, articles related,... It is not meant as a replacement of the current history, but much more a compliment to show the big changes and steps of Wikipedia, ok was it was just an idea, i just had a few ideas in my head which i wanted to share with the project, and wanted to contribute something to the project.

--subcomandante84 19:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikihistory

{{Newproject

| proposers = User:subcomandante84  
| date      = 30 September 2009
| names     = wikihistory  
| domains   = wikihistory.org
| scope     = Wikihistory is a graphical timeline on which you link for example videos, pictures, audios, to their date of appearance, you can zoom into, the timeline, gets more prezise, you can zoom out, and only the important changes of a period appear,

you can scroll through the timeline, from lets say stoneage, to the present, Information on the timeline is linked to the articles concerning it. This would allow to link Information(videos, pictures, sounds,... to a specific Time or Date, its like an interaktiv history lessons. example for an opensource timelime: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html

Voice-to-pedia

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (30 September 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Voice-to-pedia is the possibility to enter text by voice recognition, wether for disabled people, or also for normal users, a special voice recognition programm transfers spoken text into written text in the Wikipedia. Lot of people nowadays also are bored of writing much, with speaking the text into the wikipedia perhaps u could get more editors and authors to write articles. was just an idea i had in mind, the web is more and more becoming interactive so u have to adapt to that changes. Demos: none yet
Other names	Voice-to-pedia. Potential domains : voice-to-pedia.org. Related projects: none

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[[User:|User:]]

Comments

This is not a proposal for a new project and does not belong on this page. --Yair rand 14:32, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisaurus

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (30 September 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	similar to thesaurus on mobile phones, Wikisaurus, would propose u words, for a faster editing of an article of the Wikipedia, in Openoffice u have a similar function, i found that very practical, it saves time. Demos: none yet
Other names	Wikisaurus. Potential domains : wikisaurus.org. Related projects: none

People interested in joining

[[User:|User:]]

Comments

There already is on a wiki-based thesaurus on Wiktionary. See wikt:Wiktionary:Wikisaurus. --Yair rand 19:08, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
But so why a button to switch on and off wikisaurus in the wiki, is not available? I had found out that project later, but i haven't found out how it is used in the wikipedia --subcomandante84 10:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you are proposing that Wikipedia have an option to use Wikisaurus in editing, you should probably bring it up in w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) or possibly at the Wikipedia Usability Initiative instead of this page, which is for new projects. --Yair rand 12:15, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipass

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (04 October 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Wikipass is an own Database were your user information are saved, the benefit of Wikipass would be that you would no longer need a password for every Wikimedia project but u could login in each project with your wikipass, this would also prevent that people register twice. Of course Wikipass would not be editable for everybody, because of reasons of anonymity and protection of personal information. Demos: none yet
Other names	Wikipass. Potential domains : wikipass.org. Related projects: none

People interested in joining

[[User:|User:]]

Comments

This already exists, see SUL. The Earwig (Talk) 07:04, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MyWikipedia

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (04 October 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	MyWikipedia, customization of Website, or social communities has become a trend, you have it on myspace, facebook, or all the other social communities. What i would mean with MyWikipedia would mean, that the user could choose, the layout of his Wikipedia, change the colour, fonts, regroup his own Wikipedia Startscreen. There are people who are not interested in all categories of Wikipedia, so they could get the themes there are interested in, and without having to search for long, they sign in through MyWikipedia and with every LogIn they get there customized Wikipedia Startpage, they see on a chronik which articles they have read and get suggestions for articles which could be from interest to them. Web has become interaktiv today, the user wants to customize his favourite pages like he wants. Its not my thinking, but a lot of people nowadays are thinking like that, and perhaps they are bored of the everytime same Startscreen of Wikipedia, its not a critic, its not my thinking, but there are people thinking like that. But for gathering more users perhaps sometimes its not that bad to follow trends. Demos: none yet
Other names	MyWikipedia. Potential domains : mywikipedia.org. Related projects: none

Comments

Note: This is already partially handled by Cascading style sheets. -- OlEnglish 03:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: i found that project, a customization of wikipedia for iphone http://www.johntantalo.com/blog/custom-wikipedia-css-javascript-for-iphone . -- subcomandante84 15:45, 11 October 2009
Note: i found also that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Customizing_Wikipedia/Customizing_with_Preferences. --subcomandante84 15:53, 11 October 2009

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[[User:|User:]]

Wikiimprove

Proposers	User:subcomandante84 (30 September 2009). Mailing list request: none yet
Overview	Wikiimprove would be an own Wiki were you save the articles which are deleted from Wikipedia due to quality problems. Like i understood the idea of the Wikipedia Founders they wanted to creat a modern biblioteca alexandria, a collection of the knowledge of the world. If you delete an article, the knowledge and also the work of the article, is lost forever, i would classify the articles by quality and articles which can be improved could be saved for the community. So people with special knowledge of certain themes can help people who have perhaps not that knowledge of a certain theme, and so cooperation and also the community aspect of Wikipedia would be maintained. I just read an article of a newspaper who was writing how much articles are being deleted and found that a little sad. Demos: none yet
Other names	Wikiimprove. Potential domains : wikiimprove.org. Related projects: none

People interested in joining

[[User:|User:]]

Comments

This is handled by Deletionpedia --Yair rand 14:03, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Simple English Video Game Wiki

http://simplevideogamewiki.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page this is my wiki just trying to let people know about it if their interested in contributing to this. thank you.

Please do not use this page to advertise existing wikis. --Yair rand 04:26, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If it is advertising, should it be deleted? 172.165.81.229 12:03, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BioWiki

Seabanks 13:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ummm, what is this supposed to be? --Yair rand 15:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A Wiki for all bios of people. 72.73.125.14 16:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason why biographies would have their own project instead of being held on Wikipedia the way they are now? --Yair rand 17:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just putting it out there Yair rand you never know someone might come around and want to contribute to it. Seabanks 03:09, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not understand. Contribute to what? People could only contribute to it once it became a project, which it most likely won't because it overlaps with an existing project. Or, if you are not proposing a new project but attempting to advertise an existing one as you did above, please be aware that that is NOT the purpose of this page. --Yair rand 04:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia bios are for "notable" people only. 172.165.81.229 12:03, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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