Wikiguides
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| WikiGuides | |
|---|---|
| hammer, spoon and yellow right arrow in the book | |
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Reason | Unanimous opposition to the creation of a new project. * Pppery * it has begun 20:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC) [reply ] |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | Free how-to-do something from the Wikimedia Foundation. Their topics are cooking, art, sports, computers, construction, garden, etc. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | yes |
| Potential number of languages | English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Ukranian, Belarussian, Finnish, Sweedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Kazakh, Malay, Mongolian (Traditional), Mongolian (Crylic), Icelandic, Tuvaluan, Hawaiian, Silesian. |
| Proposed URL | https://wikiguides.org |
| Technical requirements | |
discussion
[edit ]proposed by
[edit ]Netgo123 (talk) 19:15, 12 June 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
alternative names
[edit ]WikiTutorials
WikiDiy
WikiAdvices
WikiIdo
Discussion
[edit ]- Wikiversity allows exactly the sort of thing you're looking for. @Vis M: from the WikiWorks project proposal is looking at something over at Wikiversity that you may be able to link into. Supertrinko (talk) 21:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Supertrinko: It's about third time I gave Wikiversity an hour to explain itself, but it's just confusing. HOWTO site is supposed to be extremely simple: every article is just a title, maybe a sentence or two of clarification, and then just step-by-step instructions, perhaps followed by some extras. Searching Wikiversity for "flat bike tire" yields no results, "first aid" yields useless page, and "quadratic equation" provides lengthy proof instead of straight answer. Wikibooks has higher hit rate, but the pages tend to be overwhelming, because Wikibooks' main focus is textbooks. — Robert Važan (talk) 00:18, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Robert Važan:, finding the information you're looking for is an issue across all wikis. We're dealing with finding the entirety of human knowledge... from a single string search box - That's a problem. Many wiki attempt to help this by categorising everything, sending you to portals and project pages. It's not an ultimate solution, but it's a step. This is definitely something that needs to be addressed, but I wouldn't use this as a reason to start many new wikimedia projects rather than instead finding a way to make existing projects better. Supertrinko (talk) 01:10, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Supertrinko: The issue is much deeper than search performance or content structure. Different wikis answer the same question from different angles. You can find "Paris" in Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata, and Wikivoyage, but even though the topic is the same, every wiki provides you with different set of facts and different way to present the facts. — Robert Važan (talk) 02:18, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Robert Važan:, finding the information you're looking for is an issue across all wikis. We're dealing with finding the entirety of human knowledge... from a single string search box - That's a problem. Many wiki attempt to help this by categorising everything, sending you to portals and project pages. It's not an ultimate solution, but it's a step. This is definitely something that needs to be addressed, but I wouldn't use this as a reason to start many new wikimedia projects rather than instead finding a way to make existing projects better. Supertrinko (talk) 01:10, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Supertrinko: It's about third time I gave Wikiversity an hour to explain itself, but it's just confusing. HOWTO site is supposed to be extremely simple: every article is just a title, maybe a sentence or two of clarification, and then just step-by-step instructions, perhaps followed by some extras. Searching Wikiversity for "flat bike tire" yields no results, "first aid" yields useless page, and "quadratic equation" provides lengthy proof instead of straight answer. Wikibooks has higher hit rate, but the pages tend to be overwhelming, because Wikibooks' main focus is textbooks. — Robert Važan (talk) 00:18, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose Oppose per Supertrinko. AnotherEditor144 t - c 10:33, 19 June 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose Oppose This is probably a subset of WikiAsk (recreated). WikiAsk will presumably allow questions of the form "How to ...?". Better join forces. — Robert Važan (talk) 02:22, 2 July 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose Oppose Wikivoyage, Wikiversity, and Wikibooks have all this. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 12:45, 1 August 2021 (UTC) [reply ]