How is this related to the MediaWiki software? On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Wjhonson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm strenuously against any "adoption" by the Foundation of these "one of > many" type sites, no matter if they claim they are "the biggest" or not. > Once we put our clout behind a site, we are destroying the natural > competition engine. > > I would further note, that 115,000 pages from "uploaded GEDCOMS" is > actually rather paltry. > I have 260,000 people in my own personal GEDCOM > So I could create this mass of data, alone. > > Rather if the Foundation were to wish to partner with a genealogical > database I would suggest Rootsweb, or FamilySearch > Both of which are *free* and *public* and could possibly be induced to use > MediaWiki software as their next evolution in this personal ancestry space. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Cuenca <[email protected]> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 7:52 am > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] About the wiki-adoption process > > > I've seen that there is a "new" Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate [2], > a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence > copyright status. I was wondering if there should be a standard procedure > for this kind of adoption requests. It is very easy to add a support for a > project, but not that easy to evaluate the hidden costs (migration, legal > deffense, etc), which might require some expertise on the topic. > > With all this information at hand, maybe it would be easier to take > informed decissions and evaluate the kind of success that is expected from > a given adoption. > > Micru > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WeRelate > [2] http://www.werelate.org > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
