On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we are just throwing out random ideas... > > I've long wanted to see an open source project to create a world > family tree, i.e. document the ancestry and connections between > everyone ever. There are a couple high profile closed source / fee > based projects aiming to do this, but no successful projects that > really have open access as part of their foundation. Even if we > limited such a project to just deceased individuals (as the big > projects usually do) it would still be a massive undertaking and > potentially very useful for researchers. > > However, while a wiki could work, it would be a suboptimal approach. > Much like wikispecies, genealogical information has a heavy component > of structured data that could benefit from dedicated tools designed > for that data. As has been suggested elsewhere, it seems that most of > the things that can be easily done by a wiki are already being done > either by us or by Wikia and similar third parties.
Robert, Are you familiar with Rodovid ? It has been mentioned in this thread by Yann, and is the top project mentioned here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rodovid -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
