Proposals for new projects

A proposal has been made to reform this proposal system. Please see here for the proposal

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. Please only make proposals on this page if you are willing to take responsibility for it; otherwise, post it on the discussion page.

If you want to propose a new language for an existing project, please do on Requests for new languages. If you want to propose closing an existing project, see Proposals for closing projects. If you are suggesting an enhancement which requires a change to the MediaWiki software, please file a feature request in MediaZilla. If you have a proposal for any other type of enhancement to an existing project, please visit that project and attempt to gather interest there.

Information

Notes to consider

Hosting: Remember that the 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, ScribbleWiki 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 may benefit from reading the Wikipedia timeline and Uses of a wiki.
Be persistent. Don't take criticism directed at proposals personally. There have been a number of mistakes made in the past in regards to starting up new project ideas, and several of the "veteran" users are afraid of repeating those same mistakes. New ideas are taken seriously, although it should be admitted that the process of going from an idea for a new project to actually turning on a server that is implementing that idea will take quite a bit of time and effort. If you are proposing these ideas, be willing 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 who will be willing to help you out as well. Be persistent and don't give up right away.
The last major project that made the jump from a project idea to something going on its own was Wikiversity. Some veteran users are suggesting that it will be a year or two before any other project idea will be accepted as a new separate project, if ever. If you want to see how a project idea has been successful, it would be wise to see what was done to go from idea to an actual project, please look at the project proposal page for Wikiversity. In particular, click on the history button and look back in time over some of the complications they went through before going "live". Any 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's Board. 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 feel free to add a suggestion below.

It has been suggested that many of the current proposals could be merged into one of the main projects below.

Wikipedia: One other place to strongly consider is Wikipedia's series of subprojects, WikiProject. Many of the proposals listed below could be incorporated into one of those projects, or perhaps a new WikiProject could be started instead. Wikipedia is evolving and changing over time, and there is already quite a bit that can be adapted from the content on Wikipedia, not to mention involving people who commonly use and edit Wikipedia.
Wikisource: Wikisource also has a similar effort for larger subprojects of Wikisource that are focused on original source material that will require quite a bit of effort to transfer to that project. This would be things like historical dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other multi-volume reference works that are of a historical nature and can be copied according to the terms of the GFDL.
Wikibooks: In addition, it has been suggested on many of the proposals listed below that a good place to look would be with Wikibooks. If you are trying to put together a large collection of factual information into one place, starting a Wikibook may be a good place to go. If it doesn't quite fit Wikibooks, the other editors at Wikibooks will try to help you get to the correct place as well.

Existing projects

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

Main projects

Wikibooks
- Wikijunior (Children's books)
- Cookbook
- How-tos bookshelf
Wikinews
Wikipedia (encyclopedia)
Wikisound (Spoken pages)
Wikisource (source texts)
Wikimedia Commons (images and media)
Wikispecies (taxological database)
Wikiquote (quotations)
Wiktionary (Dictionary and thesaurus)
Wikiversity

Special projects

Wikimania 2007 - 2006 (for the annual conference hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation)
MediaWiki.org
test wiki
Nostalgia Wiki (2001 copy of the English Wikipedia)

Also see Sites using MediaWiki.

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.
It is recommended that you advertise your project. Good places to do so are on Goings-on and on the Foundation-l mailing-list (account needed).

Requests with working demos

Project name

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: Wiki Språk (swedish), Wiki Lang (english), Wikiguage
Domain name: -
Scope: Wiki Språk är wikin för alla språk. [he says: "Wiki Språk is the wiki for all languages."]
Details: -
Comments: -
Proposer: Max sonnelid
Date: 15:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
People interested in joining

Max sonnelid

Demo sites

in swedish: User:Max sonnelid/WikiLang

Statistics Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: Wikitistics, Statistics Wiki, Wiki Stats, Wiki Statistics
Domain name: statistics.wikia.com
Scope: Wikitistics is the wiki of all statistics.

Search for statistics on any subject. Publish your own statistic, add statistics from other sources. Discuss any statistic with others.

Details: http://statistics.wikia.com/
Comments: -
Proposer: Jamesssss 20:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Date: ~
People interested joining

User:Jamesssss
Karpeth 18:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mugunth 06:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
--alexscho
-- Felipe Aira 02:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Demo sites

in english: http://statistics.wikia.com/

Eichsfeld Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: none till 2day
Naming suggestions: EIC, EicWiki,Eichsfeld,EichsfeldWiki
Domain name: wiki.eichsfeld.net (http://wiki.eichsfeld.net is connected)
Scope: Wiki about and for the region Eichsfeld in germany; europe - first targets: very detailed history,

genealogy (names and archives from Eichsfeld), geography, politics, business relations and much more regional related content. This very fresh wiki would be the core part of the Eichsfeld.Net v.2.0 - the open, free and uncommercial Eichsfeld portal.

Details: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php/Hauptseite
Comments: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php?title=Diskussion:Eichsfeld
Proposer: User:nielsd - email'nd@eichsfeld.net'
Date: Sat Jul 28 00:45:28 CEST 2007
People interested joining

User:nielsd

Demo sites

in german: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php/Hauptseite
in english: under construction this days

--Nielsd 22:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rodovid (Genealogy Wiki)

Link to Proposal on Mailing List

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/006370.html

Naming Suggestions

Rodovid, Wikifamily (already a wikimedia domain), Wikinealogy, Wikipeople, Wikitree. All suggestions would be ".org" and could use the slogan "Fully functional global family tree".

Domain Name

http://rodovid.org

Scope

A fully functional global family tree, Rodovid is an attempt to create a free familly tree site, that anyone can use. Example of ancectors tree. 7 generations. To see 43 generations read instruction directly on page. http://en.rodovid.org/wk/Special:Tree/29829

Details

Rodovid

Comments

Talk:Rodovid

what about the WeRelate suggestion above? NDCompuGeek
Just noting the existence of a genealogy wikia --Izno

Proposer: User:Baya
Proposed Names: wikifamily.org
People Interested Joining

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: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)
—Mike
Greeves
NDCompuGeek
thesublime514
SPQRobin
en:User:Quadratus
AlexEagar
R0MAN0
~ putnik
en:User:Psychless
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

Wikireason

Naming discussion: Wikireason/naming
Working demo: Wikireason
Domain name: wikireason.org, wikireason.net (registered by User:AdamRetchless, with active demo site)
Scope: Collecting, cataloging, developing, and analyzing arguments.
Details: Wikibate (original proposed name)
Comments: Talk:Wikibate
Proposer: User:David Bruhn
People interested joining

Wikikids

(Merged with the Wikichildren proposal)

Link to original proposal on mailing list

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-January/015108.html
another talk/proposal : http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/thread.html#30511

Naming suggestions: WikiKids, KidsWiki etc.
Domain name: http://www.wikikids.org, http://de.wikikids.org ... kid.wikipedia.org, kidipedia, www.wikidia.org, en.wikikids.org
Scope: 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.
Details: Wikikids
Comments: Talk:Wikikids
Proposers

First proposer: Necrophorus 20:55, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
New proposer : Astirmays 20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wikichildren proposer: Gray Porpoise (Date: June 16, 2006)

Differences between wikikids and wikichildren proposal: wikichildren offer to create different account for adults and children, the last having less privileges.
Demo sites

in dutch: english explanation about Wikikids.nl
in french english explanation about fr.vikidia.org
in german: http://www.zum.de/grundschulwiki/index.php/Hauptseite
in english: english website

People interested joining Wikikids

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

Gray Porpoise
Blue caterpillar
127.0.0.1 (talk)
Seahen
Minun ^Spiderman
T®eebark
Necrophorus
TomK32 WR Internet
Leon
FutureCrash
Ryan524
Scott Gall
Brisvegas
Astirmays
"Sir James Paul
Michael Billington
William.lethal
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
Candy-Panda
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]

[1]

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]

WikiMed

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007854.html
Naming suggestions: WikiMD seems to be taken, so WikiMed or WikiMedicine sound like options.
Working demo: http://editthis.info/wikimed
Domain name: en.wikimed.org, en.wikimedicine.org, etc. (neither registered)
Scope: A wiki dedicated to providing medical information to the public under a copyleft license.
Details: Medical dictionary wiki
Comments: Talk:Medical dictionary wiki
Proposer: Messedrocker
Date: June 17, 2006
People interested joining

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

Wikitainment Guides

Working Demo: http://www.pop-cult.org/Wikitainment/
(it will eventually become www.wikitainment.com)
Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l (HELP, please!!)
Naming suggestions: Wikitainment Guide, Wikitainment, the Pop-cult Guides
Domain name: http://www.wikitainment.com (state of registration)
Scope: 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.; It will be divided in 7 or more 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.

Details: Wikitainment
Commets: Talk:Wikitainment
Proposer: User:T-man - ajtorrepuerto@hotmail.com
Date: 17-oct-2006
People interested joining

T-man
Sir James Paul
--Crna Gora (en-wiki)
Keith @ English and 中文
Jayden54
Saponification
Maxipuchi
Greeves
~~DeSalvionjr©~~
No such user [2]. drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 01:38, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
--alexscho

Notes

This one is rigged. There's no "User:DeSalvionjr" which looks suspiciously like Civkit's vote. drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 01:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TranslateWiki

Naming suggestions: TranslateWiki, WikiTranslate, (you can add a name!), Wikiterpret, Wiklanguage, Babelwiki
Domain name: http://www.translatewiki.org (state of registration: taken by someone); http://www.wikitranslate.org (state of registration: taken by someone); http://www.babelwiki.org (state of registration: taken by a geek. if babelwiki will be accepted, maybe (didn't contact) he will donate the domain); wikiterpret.org (state of registration: AVAILABLE)
Demo: http://translation.wikia.com/
Scope: 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.
Details: TranslateWiki
Comments: Talk:TranslateWiki
Proposer: SPQRobin
Date: 17:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
People interested joining: To all the people that would like to join: See Requests for new languages/Wiktionary multilingual

WikiVote

Naming suggestions

WikiVote, WikiDemocracy, Wikipolls, W.O.D (Wiki Online Democracy), Wikiocracy

Working demo

http://wipoll.com/wipol/

Domain name

en.wikivote.org (not registered)

Scope

An online democracy, where people create polls, and vote. Kind of like http://wipoll.com/wipol/, only categorized, and easier to use.

Details

WikiVote

Comments

Talk:Wikivote

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]

Proposer: User:Openforbusiness
Date: October 28, 2006
People interested joining

WikiEarth

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikimaps, Wikiatlas, Wiktlas, Maps, Geo, WikiEarth, Wikiography, Wikiplaces, wikiworld
Working Demo: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth.
Domain name: http://www.wikiearth.org
Scope: 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
Details: WikiEarth
Commets: Talk:WikiEarth
Proposer: F. Terran, mail.
People interested joining

Scifiintel----
Boguslav
--Desalvionjr 22:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Greeves
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]
Altrensa 16:14 - 26 Novembre 2007
--alexscho
Sounds like a good idea...--Kushan I.A.K.J 13:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant links: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth WikiEarth

Wikicode

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/012950.html
Naming suggestions: Wikicode
Domain name: wikicode.org (state of registration: not registered)
Demo Wiki: http://wikicode.wiki-site.com/
Scope: A repository of source code for any programming language released under GPL or other agreed upon license.
Details: WikiCode
Comments: Talk:WikiCode
Proposer: Ryan524
Date: 29 December 2006
People interested joining

WikiTimeScale

Link to request on mailing list: None.
Naming suggestions: WikiTimeScale

Wikitime Microchip08 17:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Wikihistory Microchip08 17:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Domain name: http://www.WikiTimeScale.org (already registered, up and running)
Scope: A Wiki dedicated to timelines. It visualizes historic events, persons and so on graphically on a timescale.
Details: WikiTimeScale
Comments: Talk:WikiTimeScale
Proposer: DontPanic
Date: 5 October 2006
People interested in joining

WikiThrift

Naming Suggestion: WikiThrift
Demo: wikithrift.com
Goal: Froogle + Wiki for online and brick-and-mortar merchants.
Details: WikiThrift
To-do list

Contribute
Whittle down a set of pillars
Port over relevant templates, namespaces, classes, and help documents
Design a better logo, probably with an open contest

People interested in helping

SpeedWiki

Link to request on mailing list: None.
Naming suggestions: Please suggest on talk page.
Domain name: [www.speedwiki.org] (Proposal), speedwiki.elwiki.com for demo.
Scope: Wiki for collections on how to get jobs done fast.
Details: SpeedWiki
Comments: Talk:SpeedWiki
Proposer: Somebody
Date: 17:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
People interested joining

Qrc2006, I'm interested in this, but the name is terrible, maybe WikiDIY(DoItYourself) or WikiGuide or WikiReferance or WikiInstructions or WikiHelp even
wikipedia:WikiHow, althogh not a WM project, already exists for this purpose. Firefoxman 16:49, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikicafés

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/012203.html
Naming suggestions: wikicafés, wikicafé, wikicaff...
Domain name: wikicafes.org (not yet registered).
Scope: Wikicafés is a global guide to cafés, coffeehouses and tearooms (and similar; there seems to be a bit of confusion on Wikipedia about what these places are called in different parts of the world). Like Wikipubs but focusing on establishments that don't (primarily) serve alcohol. Content to include reviews, contact details, photos, anecdotes, suggestions, etc.
Details: Wikicafes
Comments: Talk:Wikicafes
Proposer: User:samwilson — sam at co-operista dot com
Date: 2006-12-16
People interested joining

Sam Wilson
Equazcion (Talk • Contribs)
21:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Comment: Kind of like a wiki version of Zagat's. Good idea. Restaurant reviews would probably be perfect for a wiki.
Karpeth

WikiThink

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: WikiThink
Domain name: wikithink.org (not registered)
Demo: http://wikithink.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page
Scope: Open research wiki. Where all "Original Research" articles that cannot be put in 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!
Details: Wikithink
Comments: Talk:Wikithink

wikithinkadmin at gmail dot com

Discussion and real application

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

Proposer: User:Dps
Date: 2007-01-14
People interested joining

ScholarWiki

Domain name: http://www.scholarwiki.com (registered by User:Scholarwiki, with active demo site)
Scope: This Wiki is an independent project by User:Scholarwiki and is:

A central place for students, professionals and faculty to communicate in a WIKI setting!
ScholarWIki allows users to create pages and page groups for their Laboratory, Class, School Club/Activity, Research Group and more!
ScholarWiki also has resources for potential students and Scholarship information
Users can also post/view/edit Science Methods and Techniques
Scholarwiki also has a Laboratory equipment/services Classified section and Job ad section.

Details: This WIKI is a great way to create a database of institutions, faculty, students and professionals by academic disciplines. One can link existing home pages or create one wiki style

Comments and Suggestions [3] or User Talk:Scholarwiki
Proposer: User:Scholarwiki - Name: Mark Kozubal - e-mail: mkozubal@gmail.com

People interested in joining

69.145.66.23 03:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Futbolpedia

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: Futbolpedia
Domain name: futbolpedia.org (not registered)
Demo: http://futbol.wikia.com
Scope: wiki dedicated to soccer in general, history, statistic, biographies, data in general. In Spanish
Details: Futbolpedia
Comments: Talk:Futbolpedia
Proposer: User:Atalanta86
Date: 2007-01-26
People interested joining

Atalanta86 08:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
User:Scigirl543
Altrensa 16:12 - 26 Novembre 2007

Wikiscore

Link to request on mailing list: none
Naming suggestions: Wikiscore, Wikisports, Wikiscoreboard
Domain name: wikiscore.org (not registered)
Demo: Click Here
Scope: A place where people make articles about a sports game, a sports player, or a team. Also there can be lists of just stats. The articles on a sports game would include many details (for example a Hit or RBI).
Details: Wikiscore
Comments: Talk:Wikiscore
Proposer: User:Tcbmotors - email
Date: April 6, 2007
People interested joining

Tcbmotors

Wikipubs

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: Wikipubs
Domain name: Currently registered http://wikipubs.org, http://wikipubs.net, http://wikipubs.com
Scope: Wikipubs seeks to provide a source for the sharing of information relating to pubs, clubs, bars and festivals throughout the world. It will achieve this by encouraging users to post information, stories, anecdotes and reviews of their local pubs, clubs, bars and festivals. Wikipubs will also encourage discussion on pubs, clubs, bars and festivals between patrons of these establishments. Thus building a database for users to refer to when planning an enjoyable night out.
Details: Wikipubs
Comments: Talk:Wikipubs
Proposer: James mail
Demo Site: http://wikipubs.org

WikiStock

Naming suggestions: WikiStock
Domain name: www.wikistock.com
Scope: WikiStock is created to bring together a community of traders and investors who are interested in a consolidated repository of all things related to stock trading. The driving focus of the content on this site should be of immediate relevancy to a stock trader, and less focused on historical information.
Details: User:Rovo79
Comments: Talk:Rovo79
Proposer: User:Rovo79 - email: rovo79 at gmail dot com
March 26th, 2007
People interested joining

FireWiki

Naming suggestions: FireWiki
Domain name: www.theFireWiki.org
Scope: FireWiki is an online knowledge base for the fire service. The concept is to collectively build a resource of terms, articles, and information that can be utilized by emergency responders and shared among agencies. The effort is to consolidate information for all to utilize, revise, and generate.
Details: FireWiki Proposal
Comments: Talk:Mfinney
Proposer: User:Mfinney - email: finney.md at gmail dot com
May 2nd, 2007
People interested joining

WeRelate

Naming Suggestions: WeRelate
Goal: Create an easy to use, non-sectarian and noncommerical genealogically formatted wiki, thus making it easy for family historians to collaborate and share genealogical research online. See the video
Details: WeRelate
Demo: http://www.werelate.org/fte/
Comments: WeRelate would like to discuss affiliation with the WikiMedia Foundation. See, WeRelate article
Proposer: SolveigQuass
Proposed names: WeRelate; GenealogyCenter; we're open on this one.
Working Demo: www.WeRelate.org

People Interested In Joining

Kunkelfruit Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/96031#96031
Naming suggestions: Kunkelfruit Wiki
Domain name: kunkelfruitwiki.org (unregistered), wikiproduct.org, currently: scriblerus.net/kunkelfruit
Scope: A home for free, collaborative articles on how popular products are made.
Details: http://scriblerus.net/kunkelfruit
Comments: Talk:Kunkelfruit
Proposer: User:Kunkelfruit - editor@scriblerus.net
Date: 27 June 2007
People interested joining

Kunkelfruit

WikiThesis

Link to request on mailing list: Not yet requested
Naming suggestions: WikiThesis or WikiEssays
Domain name: wikithesis.org (suggested) currently unregistered.
Scope: WikiThesis provides a Wiki for users to write essays developing a thesis in any field from current events to Irish poetry.
Details: WikiThesis
Demo: http://wikithesis.scribblewiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
Comments: Talk:WikiThesis
Proposer: Cool3 - email
Date: 29 June 2007
People interested joining

Betawiki

Link to request on mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-August/032620.html
Naming suggestions: Betawiki or migrated into Incubator
Current site: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page run by User:Nikerabbit
Details: 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.
Comments: Meta:Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia
Proposer: User:Steinninn - steinninn [at] steinninn.is
Date: 03:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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Steinninn
Siebrand
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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

Chains of Reason

Scope: To be an encyclopedia of reasoning.
Details: Chains of Reason
Working demo: www.chainsofreason.org
Domain name: www.chainsofreason.org (registered by User:Derrick)
Comments: Talk:Chains of Reason
Mailing list discussion: discussion on foundation-l
discussion on wikipedia-l
Proposer: Derrick
People interested in joining

Derrick
Son sonson
Cmelbye - This project sounds amazing!
Tharikrish
Warkos - Yes, this sounds very promising!

Requests without demos

Arts/media-related proposals

Wikicorpus

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikicorpus
Domain name: http://www.wikicorpus.org
Scope: An open corpus for people to write their own essay, but the essays must not use any filthy language; People can write some novel, stort composition or poem in there, and other people can discuss the essays in the discussion.
Details: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicorpus Wikicorpus
Proposer: User:Matin Luther
Date: 20/5/2006
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Comments

Talk:Wikicorpus

I really have no problem with essays, please see #Wikithesis above, however it is absolutely stupid for you to censor these essays. A powerful and passionate voice is necessary for a good essay. Besides, who is to judge "filthy" from "clean" and deny one's civil liberties because of it. I proudly declare, Fuck, no.Anonymous TALK 14:23, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilyrics

Naming suggestions: WikiLyrics
Domain name: none yet
Scope

WikiLyrics will be used as a way of find out lyrics to songs, unlike other lyrics sites there will be no pop-ups or ads.

Details

WikiLyrics

Comments

Talk:WikiLyrics

The problem here would be that the lyrics are under various copyrights. Putting it into a wiki does nothing to change the copy-written status of the songs. EVula // talk // 18:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to say the same thing, but was waiting for the proposal page to get created. In a very prominent case a few years ago, the wildly popular lyrics.ch was offering a rather complete database of lyrics for free, ran into legal trouble from many prominent artists and labels, and was forced to change the site significantly, to the point that it was barely usable. It eventually went under and is completely dead now.

Equazcion (Talk • Contribs)

18:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

There is already a project like this: http://lyricwiki.org/Main_Page. 79.73.143.241 15:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: User:TFMgames - tfmgames@gmail.com
Date: 00:55, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
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Candy-Panda
--alexscho

WikiMusic

Link to request on mailing list

(none)

Naming suggestions

WikiScore, WikiMusic, WikiTune WikiMIDI

Domain name

None

Scope

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.

Details

sorry, nowhere yet

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 someone 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]

Proposer: --TDN169 14:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikilinguistica

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: WikiLinguistica or just Linguistica, subsections named below
domain name: none
scope: 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!
comments: comment at Talk:WikiLinguistica

Proposer: Anonymous 1

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WikiRadio

Naming suggestions: Wiki Audio Network, Radiowiki
Domain name: www.wikiradio.org (suggestion) www.radiowiki.org
Scope: A place, where emerging artists can send in own creations, which are selected from and played through an audio stream.
Details: WikiRadio
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]

Proposer: User:paraxon - admin@paraxon.biz
Date: 19.03.2007
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Education-related proposals

Wikiversity based on the real University

Domain name: nsu.ru.wikiversity.org
Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: Wikiversity-NAME_OF_UNIVERSITY
Scope: 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
Details: v:ru:Wikiversity-NSU
Comments: v:ru:Talk:Wikiversity-NSU
Proposer and Date: miostyle 7 january 2008
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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]

ExchangeWiki

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: ExchangeWiki, WikiExchange, WikiXChange
Domain name: en.exchangewiki.org
Scope: A Wiki for all the students interested in student exchange.
Details: Exchangewiki
Comments: Talk:Exchangewiki
Proposer and Date: *tikris* 30 November 2006
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WikiCurriculum

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiCurriculum
Domain name: not available yet (state of registration)
Scope: 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.

Details: WikiCurriculum
Comments: Talk:WikiCurriculum
Proposer: Marty - weissman.marty at gmail.com
Date: September 1, 2007
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Marty (proposer)

WikiProgramming

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: WikiProgramming
Domain name: edu.wikiprogramming.org
Scope: A Wiki for beginner with programming in Windows (later maybe in Linux).
Details: WikiProgramming
Comments: Talk:WikiProgramming
Proposer and Date: DJ Jeri 2 November 2007
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DJ Jeri (proposer)

WikiFAQ

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: WikiFAQ, Wiki-A&Q, WikiAsk, WikiQuestion&Answer
Domain name: http://wikianswer.org, http://wikiaqa.org, http://wikifaq.org, http://wikiask.org
Scope: Similar to Wikipedia, its like an encyclopedia. But its article names will be questions, such as "What is the Big Bang?", then on the article page the question will be answered. This is useful because sometimes people search in questions instead.....
Details: -
Comments: -
Proposer: User:Kushan I.A.K.J - email:kushanjaya@gmail.com
Date: 11:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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--Kushan I.A.K.J 11:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History-related proposals

Wikidate

Link to request on mailing list: None yet
Naming suggestions: Wikidate
Domain name: en.wikidate.org (state of registration)
Scope: 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.
Details: None yet
Comments: Similiar in scope to Wikitimeline and Wikihistory
Proposer: Shyam ^(T/C)
Date: October 29, 2006
People interested joining

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

Wikihistory

Link to Proposal on Mailing List: None
Naming Suggestions: Wikihistory, Wikitimeline, Wikichronology
Domain Name: wikihistory.org

Demo: http://editthis.info/enwikihistory/Main_Page

Ad-free demo: http://wikihistory.elementfx.com/wiki

Scope: 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.
Details: Wikihistory
Comments: Talk:Wikihistory
Proposer: User:Armanaziz
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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]

Language-related proposals

Wikidioma

Naming suggestions: wikidioma, wikiworld, wibabel
Domain name: www.wikidioma.org (suggestion)
Scope: A place where people teach each other it's own language
Details: 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.
Comments: Talk:Wikidioma
Proposer: User:FCLeste
Date: 13 April 2007
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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

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikilingo, Wikispeak
Domain name: en.wikilingo.org (not registered)
Scope: A place for people to learn new languages. It would be formatted into lessons.
Details: Wikilingo
Comments: Talk:Wikilingo
Proposer: User:Tcbmotors - email
Date: May 24, 2007
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List-related proposals

Wikinac

Demo site: http://wikinac.info.tm (seems to be br
Naming suggestions: Wikinac, Wikialmanac, WikiSignifica, WikiPeople'sAlmanac
Domain name: en.wikinac.org, en.wikialmanac.org, en.WikiSignifica.org
Scope: A wiki World Almanac
WikiSignifica Scope: 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.
Details: Wikinac
Comments: Talk:Wikinac
Proposer: Ryan524
Date: 08:28, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wikialmanac, proposer: Gary123
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Ryan524
Merlin of Eragon
Sean Turvey
GangstaEB
--alexscho

Relevant links

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

Wikilists

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

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]
217.120.159.198
Candy-Panda
Hyper Girl
David Witchell 17:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Calliopejen1 Please God, anything to get the trivia off en.wiki....
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]
Johan - I could donate space for a temporary home. Leave a message on my WP-en user page.

Reference-related proposals

Wikilaw

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikilaw, wikilegal, wikilex or wikirights
Domain name: wikilex.org (state of registration)
Scope: to build a database of 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: [[5]]
Comments: [[6]]
Proposer: User:diogod – denczuk@gmail.com
Date: January 18, 2008
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Wikibibliography

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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WikiBrain

Naming suggestions: WikiBrain
Scope: 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.
Details: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiBrain
Commets: Talk:WikiBrain
Proposer: Andrewdt85, email: andrewdt85@hotmail.com
Date: 5/26/06
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Andrewdt85
carlwfbird
openforbusiness
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
Greeves
DeSalvionjr©
Candy-Panda
Karpeth 18:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lookup Directory Wiki

Naming suggestions: Wikidirectory, Wikilookup, Wikifind
Domain name: countrycode.wikidirectory.org (registered), countrycode.wikilookup.org (free)
Scope: A lookup directory, storing information about all and any people or organisations on the planet.
Details: Lookup directory wiki
Comments: Talk:Lookup directory wiki
Proposer: User:Alfakim (w:User:Alfakim)
Date: 02:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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WikiPharma

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiPharma, WikiP.D.R.
Domain name: xx (state of registration)
Scope: Many Pharmaceuticals are already listed quite extensively in wikipedia.

However, so are many words and species, yet these have been granted their own projects. I think a wikiPDR-type community would be very convenient, especially since the online PDR is not available for free to the general public or researchers. I am a graduate student of pharmacology, but the online version of the definitive text of pharmacology is restricted only to one branch of the science-medical-research community. If interested, this could also be incoroporated into the Medical Dictionary mentioned above, however I think it would be best to keep the drug information in a wiki of it's own.

Details: WikiPharma
Commets: Talk:WikiPharma
Proposer: name of one contact person - with user page and email
Date: 12:03, 4 September 2006 (EST)
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WikiOntata

Link to request on mailing list: None yet
Naming suggestions: WikiOntata, WikiOntology
Domain name: en.wikiontata.org
Scope: An ontology (concept map) of world knowledge
Details: WikiOntata
Comments: Talk:WikiOntata

I think this is a great idea. I'm guessing the format would be a hierarchal tree of all knowledge in a similar way Wikispecies has been set up. I found an interesting article on the topic here. Though, I’m not sure that ontology is the correct terminology. Epistemology is probably closer to the ojective. Though, even that is not the accurate term. But wikiepistemology? Yuk! Someone with more knowledge on the matter would probably come up with a good name. I think it's only a matter of time when this needs to be done as the Dewey Decimal System dosn't quite cut it anymore when wikipedia itself is managing over 1.5 million articles. – E! Dec. 29th 13:30 AEST.

Proposer: User:Bootedcat
Date: 25 Oct 2006
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Wikimedia-related proposals

Wikiscope

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007671.html
Naming suggestions: Wikiscope, Wikiview, Wikiwatch, Wikshelf (see Wikiscope/Name), Wikicue
Domain name: en.wikiscope.org, de.wikiscope.org etc. (available as of 14/6/06)
Scope: A viewer (non-Wikimedian)-based page which ties together the various Wikimedia projects.
Details: Wikiscope
Comments: Talk:Wikiscope
Proposer: Daniel
Date: 2 June 2006
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Wikimedia Outreach

Link to request on mailing list: [7]
Naming suggestions: Wikimedia Outreach, Spread Wikimedia
Domain name: outreach.wikimedia.org (state of registration)
Scope: 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.
Details: Wikimedia Outreach
Comments: Talk:Wikimedia Outreach
Proposer: User:Eloquence - erik AT wikimedia DOT org
Date: January 6, 2007
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Unsorted proposals

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

Wikicommunity

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikicommunity
Domain name: x
Scope: Community-building for WikiMedia contributors
Details: Wikicommunity
Comments: Talk:Wikicommunity
Proposer: User:Sarsaparilla
Date: 01.01.2007
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Wikibusiness

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikibusiness
Domain name: http://www.kikibusiness.org (state of registration)
Scope: Free Business ideas and plans
Details: Wikibusiness
Comments: Talk:Wikibusiness
Proposer: Peter Littmann: Darbouka International
Date: 03.10.2006
People interested joining

''Peter Littmann: Darbouka International
Laleena
User:DeSalvionjr
Kancervero
Yes0song (w:ko:)

Wiki Conspiracy

Link to proposal on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikiconspiracy, ConspiriWiki, Wikspiracy,
Domain name: none
Scope: I've noticed that people get upset when conspiracy theories leak into regular articles. but some topics have more conspiracy than anything. I think it would be neat to creat a wiki that features conpiracy theories. Then we could keep regular sites clean and still give the full flavorful rich part of our culture known as crazy conspiracy theories spread its wings. plus with peer editing alot of those long ramblings could be rendered coherent. could be fun--Olsdude 01:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Details: Wikiconspiracy
Commets: Talk:Wikiconspiracy

"I think this is a good idea because it will keep wack jobs with a conspiracy to "expose" out of the Wikipedia where people connected to the real world live."- Supergirl the Great

Proposer: Olsdude
Date: 01:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
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Wikimechanist

Domain name: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimechanist (registered by User:Wikimechanist, with active demo site)
Scope: This Wiki is an independent project by User:Wikimechanist and is:

Comes up with some repair solutions to our mechanic and electronic tools used in daily life. At home or work.
Some useful tips to build your own handmades like:

USB sharing device

Mountain bike repair. (Brakes, tyres, etc.)

Details: This WIKI is a great way to create a database of repairing.
Comments and Suggestions or User Talk:Wikimechanist

I prefer wikimechanics, with opensource pages about how to create and repair opensource machines (we could include schematics of the machine in an opensource way) . --Mac 08:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This project is a perfect candidate for Wikibooks. I love the idea, but as a separate project, I don't think it would work (or that it would be appropriate). EVula // talk // 15:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: User:Wikimechanist - Name: Fatih Geridönmez - e-mail: fgerid@gmail.com
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WikiSimplify

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Simplify Wikipedia, Wikipedia Simplification Project (WSP)
Domain name: xx (state of registration)
Scope: On Wikipedia, there is a lot of terminology that can get pretty complicated, otherwise known as Jargon. Many of the users of Wikipedia are of a younger generation, say, 6-12th grade. For them, this terminology will make everything in that article seem to hard for them, which will lower the users of Wikipedia significantly. See the details for more.
Details: [8] Details (deleted)
Comments: user talk:Shoveldude; Why would this need to be a separate project? Are you sure you are requesting a new site and not just a WikiProject? Angela 22:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about Simple English Wikipedia? Your idea has been around for a while. Greeves 16:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: Shoveldude - shoveldude@gmail.com
Date: 1-11-2007
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WikiAdvice

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiAdvices, WikiMethods, WikiWay, WikiSuggestion, WikiLiving, WikiBetterLiving, WikiGreen, WikiGoodAdvice
Domain name: en.wikiadvices.org, en.wikimethods.org, en.wikiway.org, en.wikisuggestion.org
Scope: A wiki-based collection of user's knowledge of methods and advice to make some work better or do something. Think of it as a consumer run Consumer Reports type of publication. Articles should be NPOV like Wikipedia but about practical things that everyday people need to know about and do (unlike a normal encyclopedia).
Details: Wikiadvice
Comments: Talk:Wikiadvice
Proposer and Date: 221.97.134.92 19:21, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Tim Oey

WikiCitizens

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: WikiCitizens
Domain name: http://www.wikicitizens.org
Scope: WikiCitizens will serve as a forum for accessing information on all socio-political issues. WikiCitizens is meant to make people aware of what the important, current issues are in their communities, and how their fellow citizens are responding to them.
Details: wikicitizens
Commets: Talk:Wikicitizens
Proposer: e.m.
Demo site: demo has been proposed at wikia.com
Date: June 5th, 2006
People interested in joining

e.m.
Laleena

Wikishelf

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikshelf
Domain name: http://www.wikshelf.com (not registered)
Scope: A serch engine designed to conjugate and gather all info contained in all the oficial wikis.
Details: Wikshelf
Commets: Talk:Wikishelf
Proposer: User:T-man - ajtorrepuerto@hotmail.com
Date: 17-oct-2006
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PermaWiki

Link to request on mailing list: N/A
Naming suggestions: permaWiki, wikiranking
Domain name: N/A, may work as filter on wikipedia.org
Scope: A user maintained ranking of wiki pages for automatically condensing wiki or extracting important sub-parts.
Details: PermaWiki
Commets: Talk:PermaWiki
Proposer: C2:GunnarZarncke (I didn't register yet; hope that doesn't discredit me)
Date: 12 June 2006
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User:GunnarZarncke

Wikipedia:Map

Link to proposal on mailing list: (none)
Scope: CDT stands for Context Driven Topologies, an open source system of mathematical mapping, audio-visual presentation, and data structures to serve as a bridge between interactive thinking communities like Wikipedia, large scale digital collections and archives, and everyone with a computer.
Details: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CDT_proposal, Wikipedia:Map
Comments: [[Talk:Wikipedia:Map]]
Proposer: Deborah MacPherson
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Laleena

Relevant links: http://www.contextdriventopologies.org

Wikibot

Scope: Wikibot provides structuring tools, multi-dimensional datasets, interwiki content 'translation' and querying functionality for accessing targeted wiki content from external servers. It would also provide mechanisms for allowing externally maintained databases to form relationships with Wikibot datasets.
Details: Wikibot, Wikibot/Technical
Commets: Talk:Wikibot
Proposer: disanpoter
Date: 23 August 2006
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Wikiglot

Scope: standardized tools and resources for assisting in language acquisition via structured linguistical information on pronunciation, grammar, usage. WikiGlot would interface with other interwiki content using regularized rules and special tools in order to provide users with usage illustrations, practice exercises and enrichment material
Core Components

Gloss: Structured List of Language Features
Lexicard: List of Language Terminology in the User's Primary language

Details: Wikiglot, Wikiglot/Technical
Commets: Talk:Wikiglot
Proposer: disanpoter
Date: 23 August 2006
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disanpoter (proposer)

WikiResults

Naming suggestions: WikiResults, WikiStatistics, WikiRecords, WikiData (currently not available)
Domain name: en.wikiresults.org (available as of 20/11/06)
Scope: Central storage of uncommented lists and data in the internet. Useful for sports results, election results, awards nominees and laureates, dierctors/members of organizations and systems, sports and non-sports record progressions, full lists of annual/periodical events etc. The new space would then leave a space in the Wikipedia for verbalized articles encyclopedic character.
Details: WikiResults
Comments: Talk:WikiResults
Proposer: Okino
Date: 20 November 2006
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Okino
--alexscho

WikiAbridgements

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikiabridgia SquishedWiki Wikidigest
Domain name: http://www.wikiabridged.org
Scope: Take great works and reduce them to a more readable size while preserving the original words and texts of the authors.
Details: WikiAbridge
Commets: Talk:WikiAbridge

Oppose.How can you preserve the original works? Many authors have tried and failed, and you would need the book to start with. Eventually the works would be deleted so much that it dies. Microchip08 18:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: --Gary123 14:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Relevant links: http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abridgement http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/writers.htm http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/thucydides/tofc.htm http://www.e-classics.com/contents.htm http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/divines.htm

WikiCook

Link to request on mailing list

Naming suggestions

Wikicook

Domain name

Wikicook.org (Unregistered)

Scope

A free resipie respority

Details

WikiCook Proposal

Comments

Talk:WikiCook Proposal

umm, wikibooks:cookbook? Bawolff 01:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: User:Nathannoblet - email nathannoblet@gmail.com
Date: March 23 2007
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Nathannoblet
Candy-Panda

Creative Writing Wiki

Naming suggestions: Creative-Writing-Wiki (url: en.creative-writing-wiki.org/wiki/), Wikiwriting (en.wikiwriting.org/wiki), Cr-Wr-Wiki (en.crwrwiki.org/wiki/) - further names and urls can be added
Possible Domain Names: (see above)
Scope: A wiki about and containing creative writing
Details: Following shall be put into the wiki:

Playscripts

Tragedies
Comedies
Melodramas
Films
Other
Details: Wikiwriting

Demo: To be created on Wikia scratchpad
Description site: Wikiwriting (to be created)
Comments: Discussion:Wikiwriting
Date: 10:37, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Creator: 213.168.111.227 I will email you my email adress if you request me to do so on my discussion page
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The Open Discovery Project: A Universal Research Community

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Open Discovery
Domain name: opendiscovery.com.ar (registered)
Scope: Let's create a vast network of information supplied by people on the most varied fields of life. Thanks to computer tools, this network will make it possible to identify constants and correlations between facts yet to be known, thus creating new lines of research and knowledge advances.

Details: Open Discovery Project
Comments: x
Proposer: User:Stilman - email gstilman@gmail.com
Date: 26/05/07
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Stilman

P2 Peerpedia

Link to Proposal on Mailing List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_P2-search_peerpedia (deleted per en.wp MfD)
Naming Suggestions: Peerpedia - P2
Goal: creating an open source search engine based on yacy for indexing wikipedia on that network and external links, search box in wikipedia for external content on the web.
Details: see sub-page link above and P2P
Comments: see aboe

Not very clear proposal, no mailing list link. Firefoxman 16:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: see above
Proposed Names: peerpedia.net
People Interested Joining: please add it to the link above

User:Bjwebb

WikiMobile

I propose that a Mobile Wiki page be created 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.
If there is any interest, I can elaborate on ideas on how to implement this most effectively.

Date: 28 - December - 2006
Domain name: WAPwiki.mobi ...
Comments: Discussion --> User_talk:7cows
Proposer: 7cows
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WikiMaven

Naming suggestions: WikiMaven
Scope: Medium
Domain name: wikimaven.org, wikimaven.com, wikimaven.us, wikimaven.info
Details: A price comparison website driven by MediaWiki. The general concept is to help you save time when you need a specific item by finding out which stores (online and brick-and-mortar) carry your item and where to like in the store. A probable tie-in with Google maps would make it easy to sort stores by travel distance.
Comments: Talk:WikiMaven
Proposer: bmunden
Date: 1/28/2007
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Wikemistry

Naming suggestions: Wichemist
Scope: A wiki dedicated to chemistry.
Proposer: Maxipuchi
Comments

You could adopt wikia:chemistry or join en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry. --Matthias M. 11:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Date: 10/3/2007
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Maxipuchi (proposer)

Comments

Since I'm not the proposer I'm not going to change the stated scope. But here is my suggestion, which I am sharing with other wikichemists:

Database of all significant chemicals (i.e. commercially available, including fine chemicals)
- Experimental details - microscale and macroscale synthesis, real-life spectra (opposed to that generated by prediction software)
Compound classes
Reactions
Lab technique and good laboratory practices
Laboratory equipment, including:
- operation
- preventive maintenance
Analytical tools
- sample preparation
- data collection
- interpretation

It may be more appropriate to discuss these details here than in wikipedia, which is more appropriate for the lay audience. --Rifleman 82 14:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikinvironment

Naming suggestions: Wikinvironment
Domain name: wikinvironment.org (suggestion)
Scope: A resource for residents of the planet to gather and view information concerning the environment on a company, city and country scale.
Details: Wikinvironment
Comments: Talk:Wikinvironment
Proposer: User:Slyder - sly_ron@hotmail.com
Date: March 14th, 2007
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Wikimedia Fair-use Commons

Naming suggestions

Wikimedia Fair-use Commons (FUC)

Domain name

fairuse.commons.wikimedia.org (suggestion)

Scope

New Commons that allow uploading Fair-use files. The wiki will be connected to wikis that allow Fair use.

Details

User:Yes0song/Fair-use Commons (English), User:Yes0song/フェアユース・コモンズ (Japanese), User:Yes0song/공정 사용 공용 (Korean)

Comments

User talk:Yes0song/Fair-use Commons

A collection of fair use images is a contradiction in terms. Fair use relies on editorial context. An image as such is never fair use, much less a collection of images. This proposal appears to be based upon a profound misunderstanding of what fair use is. -- 217.234.252.187 22:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposer: User:Yes0song - yes0song@paran.com
Date: March 17th, 2007
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Yes0song (proposer)
User:Orthologist This should be of great use.
User:Felipe Aira In order to prevent multiple duplications of fair use images in different wikis

Wikiworldjournals

Project Title: Wikiworldjournals, or Wikidiurnials
Scope: Create daily records of our own lives and amalgamate them into a worldwide collection, for posterity.
Details: Wikijournals
Comments: Talk:Wikijournals
Proposer: User:Southwell
Date: 17 April 2007
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Wikicracy

Link to request on mailing list: I'll create one upon request: send e-mail to vmandrilly at hotmail dot com;Naming suggestions: wikicracy. Possible alternatives: wikiocracy, wikidemocracy, ...
Domain name: could be www.wikicracy.com or other depending on final decision on name.
Scope: Unlike almost all the projects here, this project is not about special contents that couldn't be included into wikipedia. The purpose is to adapt the magic of wiki philosophy and software (a powerfull cooperation online tool, which is used for building knowledge) to make it a powerfull cooperation online in organizing : to allow constructive debates and democratically based decision making. It would be a very usefull tool for all association/organisation/working group/etc, and of course could therefore be helpfull for wikimedia community in organising its debates, votes, and elections.
Details: Wikicracy
Comments: Talk:Wikicracy. Note : I need support of the foundation because it is not just a question to add new contents on a new subject (in which case I'd just add contents to wikipedia or build my own wiki, it is a project that needs coding, and that could be used by the whole society and virtually any group of people. This project could benefit from add-ons made for votes/pools or debates.
Proposer: User:Vmandrilly - vmandrilly at hotmail.com
Date: August 10, 2007
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WikiPracticals

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiPraticals or WikiWayOfLife
Domain name: xx (state of registration)
Scope: Pratical issues and solutions for living in countries around the World
Details: see Wikipracticals introduction
Comments

I know that there are already existing projects or proposals looking close to this proposal :

Proposals_for_new_projects#WikiTravel : unfortunately not dealing with the way of life (for people that would migrate or live for a certain time into the country) ;
[9] not GFDL'd and not run by The Wikipedia Foundation (User:Roberth and User:Rschen7754) : Is this a problem ?. Nevertheless, I never found it before coming on Wikimedia (that's an issue). Moreover, most of the articles have a lack of data relating the cost of life, the examples of prices (as well for travalers - tips, stamps, tickets, etc - , as for living in - 1l of milk, furnitures for babies, benzine, food; housiing, etc.

To summarise : this proposal focuses on pratical issues and may refer to misc. projects or international sources as necessary.

Thanks to comment here : Talk:Wikipracticals discussion

Proposer: User:Sylfide - email
Date: 2007/08/29
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Sylfide (proposer)

Wikibin as in - WikiRecycle

For any article/page/discussion/and so forth that is not vandalism, slander libel, spam, or a copyright violation that would otherwise be deleted, instead of deletion, the good faith contribution is moved to this wiki and stored for reference or later use. Currently, only admins can view deleted articles. It seems that as long as there was nothing illegal or bad faith about the article, there is no reason others should not be able to use it or fork it.

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiRecycle ...
Domain name: wikirecycle.org
Scope: all good faith contributions of content outside the scope of any other easily accessed wiki
Details: see Wikirecycle
Comments

This exists at wikiasite:annex.

It is run by Wikia, not Wikimedia, it does not actually seem to have the scope of every article that has gained the consensus of delete on AfD and other equivalent areas on other Wikimedia projects (the site, Annex reads, "Wikipedia fiction and fiction-related articles that are too detailed, minor, or trivial for Wikipedia can be kept until they find a new home"), and it certainly doesn't seem to be standard practice to transwiki to be deleted articles there.

Might this be appropriate for Wikiincubator?

Date: 5 November 2007
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Adswiki

Individuals/groups can create pages promoting their website/business/product/service/want/need/and so forth. People can post any URL with a description, as long as it is in an organized fashion in line with the consensus of the community. It would hopefully be rather organized. Items could be removed with consensus of the community.

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Adswiki
Domain name: http://adswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page (currently up)
Scope: Anything anyone wanted to post. There could be lists of websites organized in a meaningful, useful fashion, etc. Advertising illegal products and services would not be allowed. Fraud would not be allowed.
Details: see Adswiki
Comments: Knowing what people and organizations want and need would seem to qualify as knowledge; so in that way it seems this project may not be outside the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation's vision ("a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge") and I know of no current project that this sort of content would be appropriate.
Date: 5 November 2007, updated with new name February 23, 2007
People interested: User:Emesee

Wikirecords

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikirecords
Domain name: wikirecords.org (state of registration)
Scope: A wiki where you can find many world records.
Details: Page where the project is thoroughly explained
Comments
Proposer: User:Pieterdj - email
Date: 2007-11-06
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Wikidata

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikidata
Domain name: wikidata.org or de.wikidata.org
Scope: A wiki for statistics, lists etc.. see also Wikilists and Wikidata
Details: User:Marcus Cyron/Wikidata
Comments: User Talk:Marcus Cyron/Wikidata
Proposer: User:Marcus Cyron - kenwilliams-1ATwebDOTde
Date: 2007-11-06
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--alexscho

WikiWeb

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiWeb
Domain name: wikiweb.org
Scope: A wiki for web sites.
Comments
Proposer: 71.51.124.230 20:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Date: December 6, 2007
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WikiSMS

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: WikiSMS
Domain name: wikisms.org
Scope: A wiki derived from all wiki projects comprising 160 character text explaining various topics/defining various meanings/identifying various people.
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 !!! ;).
Proposer: --Lord Anubis 00:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Date: December 25, 2007 - Merry Christmas
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Karpeth

Wikipedia Offline Client

Would it be possible to create a client that downloads wikipedia articles for offline viewing? That way, wikipedia could be used like an offline encyclopedia, which would be useful on laptops.

Since wikipedia is constantly being changed, somesort of update service would be needed to fetch new articles and update cached articles. Since wikipedia logs all changes to articles, the update service would be able to simply apply changes, without redownloading the entire article, saving bandwidth. Each client could also be limited to quota, or downloading could be more manual than automatic, meaning the user would have to browse through categories, and select the ones they want to download. Since images would use the most bandwidth, the update service could be limited to thumbnails, and download full size images when requested upon connection to the internet (or be placed in queue for when a connection is made). And to save further bandwidth, the client could be distributed via bittorrent, in several versions; one that consists of just the client, one that comes preloaded with various articles, and one that comes with the entire wikipedia database (which I imagine would be several dozen gigabytes).

When viewing pages, they could integrate into the client. Links could be available on a right pane, or in a top menu bar. An indexing service, available through the update service, could be used to quickly search the entire wikipedia database offline. Articles not cached could appear greyed out. Umm, okay, my ideas are endless...

Anyway, I'd be grateful if the guys at Wikipedia would code such a client =P

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