On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a > proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a > WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to > continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such > a project and to have the feedback I receive go into the proposal which I > hope to write this summer.
This sounds great. Just speaking as a community member, I've been thinking about this topic a long time myself, and have plenty to add to the conversation. > The proposal white paper will then be sent around > to interested parties for corrections and feedback, including on-wiki and > mailing lists, before eventually landing at the Foundation officially. As we > know WMF has not started a new project in some years, so there is no > official process. Thus I find it important to get it right. I'd suggest finding an on-wiki spot to discuss this work. Here's one place this has been discussed in the past that may be a good place to revive the conversation: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published Rather than commenting on list about the subject itself, I've commented on the discussion page there: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published#Fact_database_6531 Rob _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
