Wikispore: Difference between revisions

Wikispore is a proposal for a new project to develop test wikis to fill out the rest of the reference shelf with new genres of free knowledge. It would differ from Wikimedia Incubator in that it would support experimentation and diversification in new formats, as well as new languages. It is expected to function similarly to the Community Wishlist Survey in that 10 test wikis would be selected each year for interim development, and, after a maturation phase, perhaps one or two a year might "graduate" to full sister project.

The idea was inspired by a recurring theme that came up at the New York City Wiknic / Strategy Salon, that expanding partnerships and diversity requires greater flexibility with the starting of new "spore" mini-projects to support new directions for the movement.

Technical information: wikitech:Nova Resource:Wikispore

These seem like the sort of projects which Wikispore could support:

• Wikibase instances
  • WikiCite
  • Wikidata Lexeme project
  • many other instances in the Wikidata network
• existing complementary projects
  • OpenStreetMap, en:OpenStreetMap
  • wikiHow, en:wikiHow
  • any library service
    • Open Library, en:Open Library
    • Sci-Hub, en:Sci-Hub
    • Public.Resource.Org, en:Public.Resource.Org
    • portals to university and library online archives
    • Wiki genealogy project (and other things around genealogy)
    • http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
• new proposed projects
  • VideoWiki
  • WikiJournal
  • NonFreeWiki

See also:

• https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
• wikiconference:Submissions:2019/Wikispore: Wider than Wikipedia, Deeper than Wikidata

Additional discussion at the talkpage

1. Support Support as initial proposer.--Pharos (talk) 19:22, 12 August 2019 (UTC) reply
2. Strongest possible Support Support! –SJ talk 08:51, 13 August 2019 (UTC) reply
3. Support Support, both hands! -Geraki ^T _L 13:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC) reply
4. Support Support, VIGNERON * ^discut. 13:18, 14 August 2019 (UTC) reply
5. Support Support Tgr (talk) 14:35, 18 August 2019 (UTC) reply

   (削除) Support Support Gnangarra (talk) 04:34, 21 August 2019 (UTC) (削除ここまで)reply

6. Support Support I think we need to start experimenting again. --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 14:14, 21 August 2019 (UTC) reply
7. Support Support We have an experimentation space for new languages of Wikipedias, but we need an experimentation space for various projects of other types. In Wikidata there will be countless variations on Wikibase instances, and for other sorts of projects we have many other odd pending proposals. Right now WikiCite and Structured Data on Commons seem like the most developed Wikibase'd projects and WikiJournal seems like the most developed non-Wikibase project which needs incubation. Blue Rasberry (talk) 08:29, 22 August 2019 (UTC) reply
8. Support Support Rosiestep (talk) 20:16, 22 August 2019 (UTC) reply
9. Support Support A fascinating idea if you think about it... Arep Ticous 17:34, 29 August 2019 (UTC) reply
10. Support Support So this would be a place where new wikis could be created. I like it. SelfieCity (talk) 18:28, 31 August 2019 (UTC) reply
11. Support Support This would likely be helpful in the creation and development of WikiLaw (3). –MJL ‐Talk‐ ^☖ 06:14, 1 September 2019 (UTC) reply
12. Support Support seems a very logical partner system to sit alongside the incubator. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) ^talk 02:54, 4 September 2019 (UTC) reply
13. Support It would help a lot to have this kind of platform for testing new projects, which means more ideas become projects.
14. Support Support Battleofalma (talk) 11:21, 26 October 2019 (UTC) reply
15. Support Support. Ivanhercaz (talk) 01:54, 5 November 2019 (UTC) reply
16. Support Support -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 03:24, 8 November 2019 (UTC) reply
17. Support Support I was skeptical, but Pharos convinced me this is valuable. stephen (talk) 20:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC) reply
18. Support Support --Ragesoss (talk) 20:48, 9 November 2019 (UTC) reply
19. Support Support More wikis! MahmoudHashemi (talk) 20:49, 9 November 2019 (UTC) reply
20. Support Support Reify-tech (talk) 20:57, 9 November 2019 (UTC) reply
21. Support Support, probably. Incubator handles languages, but overall new project prototyping definitely merits a platform for investigation and support. I don't know if we have the technical basis here to pull it off at this stage, but perhaps that is part of what simply requires further investigation. -— Isarra ༆ 21:18, 9 November 2019 (UTC) reply

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