Last modified: 2006-12-08 20:40:17 UTC
Why not expand Wikimedia as a resource by adding a people finder (Wikipeople or just Wikeople)? This feature could be easily implemented with "user pages" already developed for Wikipedia. Changes that would need to be made would include: 1) Informing users that filling out the user page as an auto-biography will enter them into a pool that will be referenced... (of course that would be optional) 2) And offering users the oppertunity to look someone up using not their user name, but their real name...(this could possibly be the first heading in the user page) Some discussion should be had about this. Perhaps users should only be allowed to edit their own pages? Perhaps not. Perhaps users should only be allowed to start one User Page... Or perhaps they should be allowed to create biographies for loved ones or the deceased... Anyway, this seems like it would be fairly easy to implement and would offer an incredible additional resource to the Wiki name...
This is not the correct place to ask this. Please make a proposal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects and only post here if it's approved by the Foundation.
