On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps we need a peripheral Wikipedia layer for items meeting V, but > where N being based on general assumptions: a level for verifiable > articles that don't meet current notability standards. > > It could be a separate project, Wikidirectory--just as we moved out > dicdefs, and quotations, and so on, except that there are already > too many projects to keep track of. Could we do it within Wikipedia, > perhaps as a namespace? > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG >
Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where) was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the yellow pages. Something managed under a wiki model to include the names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, and a short description of any and all local businesses. Commercial businesses are a fine example of entities that are usually verifiable but not notable from Wikipedia's point of view, and having a central repository of directory information would generally be useful. A crowd sourced directory would suffer from the general problems of accuracy that all our wikiprojects have to worry about, but probably has the potential to include more comprehensive information than the commercial providers can manage. If people truly believe in the "sum of all human knowledge" paradigm, then eventually we'll have to confront what to do with a wide range of factual information (like yellow page listings, family trees, sports almanacs, and other things) that are permanent or semi-permanent and yet generally not in the scope of projects like Wikipedia because they aren't very notable. Wikibooks can vaguely address some of this, but shoehorning everything into a "book" model doesn't really make sense either. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
