I believe its not a Wikimedia Foundation upcoming website, nor does it have any affiliations with the WMF.
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, Guy Ravine wrote: > It's in development, launching this week. You're welcome to join us to > help. > > Yes, we need contributors of technical knowledge and content. Coders, > designers, editors. > > Please contact me at guy _att_ wikineering _dot_ org, let me know how you > can help. > > On Aug 13, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Nkansah Rexford > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > wrote: > > Is a website for Wikineering up and running that one can peek at? > > Well, if I may ask, contributors of content and/or technical knowledge? > i.e, coding, designers, etc > > Thanks > > On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, Guy Ravine wrote: > >> Hey Everyone! >> >> I'm glad you all enjoyed the conference! >> >> We're launching a new collaboration called Wikineering, wiki engineering, >> and need your help. >> >> While so far, the wiki has been used to collectively organize knowledge >> repositories, Wikineering will put MediaWiki to use as a tool that allows >> the world to collaboratively create and improve specifications for new >> products and services. If the world could come together to wikineer >> meaningful new products and services that do not exist, it would change >> itself for the better. The vision is simple: Engineering built the 20th >> Century. Wikineering will build the 21st Century. >> >> We are looking to launch Wikineering in the coming days based on >> MediaWiki and need your help. If you're good at MediaWiki development or >> customization, or at editing entries as a Wikipedian, please join us. There >> is a short term and long term roadmap to make this a reality and we could >> use your help. >> >> The first project that will be collaboratively wikineered is the >> supersonic Hyperloop transportation system that was proposed yesterday by >> Tesla founder Elon Musk. The Hyperloop received exposure to millions of >> people yesterday and Musk invited everyone to contribute to the Hyperloop >> design. However, only thing that is missing to enable everyone to >> contribute to the design is a platform for collective engineering like >> Wikineering. So -- join us and we will build it! >> >> To make wiki engineering practical requires new extensions and >> customization of MediaWiki. If you join us to contribute to the development >> of Wikineering we can together make it a reality and we will kick start a >> new movement that could literally change the world by allowing it to change >> itself. Wikineering is not a fly by night idea. A number of us -- >> inventors, engineers and academics at MIT -- have been thinking about the >> principles for successful collective engineering for a few years now. We >> now believe we know what it takes to make wiki practical for the collective >> engineering process and need your help to make it a reality! >> >> Everyone are welcome to contribute. Contact me at guy _att_ wikineering >> _dot_ org to help. >> >> Guy >> >> The Wikineering Collaboration >> San Francisco, California & Cambridge, Massachusetts >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > > > -- > +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG > Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> > | > +233 266 811 165 l > BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > -- +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/>
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