Teofilo wrote: > The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of > "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not" (1). Recently a totally stupid pink > heart was added to user talk pages, making people believe it is > Valentine Day everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being > used as a social network or a game. > > [...] > > (1) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace > _provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site
I think the term you're looking for is "wikiafication". Maybe "Wikiafication"? I suppose it's not quite genericized yet, so capitalizing it probably makes sense. I've had a draft e-mail sitting around for months now that I've been meaning to send on the subject. MoodBar, WikiLove, etc. are all forms of Wikiafication. This is dangerous, as Wikia largely sucks, so any attempted emulation of it is a risky proposition. That isn't to say that Wikia gets nothing right, but for the most part, it's a pretty bad user experience at a social and technical level. There is also the tangential issue that mingling Wikia development/engineering projects with Wikimedia development/engineering projects further erodes the already tenuous divide between the two organizations. There's been talk (more than talk, really) of Wikimedia working with Wikia on projects such as the parser rewrite, as it serves both organizations' interests. That's true, to be sure, but the costs of further close collaboration may outweigh any benefit. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
