Wikiology
| wikiology | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Reason | no support. Pecopteris (talk) 03:40, 20 August 2023 (UTC) |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | wikiology helps identify real life objects (in particular plants and animals) by guiding the user through a number of easy-to-answer questions. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | Not based on MediaWiki. |
| Potential number of languages | Many languages |
| Proposed URL | http://www.wikiology.org |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | Not based on MediaWiki. |
| Interested participants | |
| Michivo | |
The idea behind wikiology is to help people identify real life objects (in particular plants and animals). Sample use-case: I like picking mushrooms. When I find one in the woods, I often do not know what species it is. I go to the wikiology website, the web site guides me through several questions regarding the appearance of the mushroom I have in front of me (e.g.: Is it gilled? Does it have pores? What color is it? What size is it? Is the cap smooth or are there flakes/scales on it?). In the end wikiology will tell me what mushroom it is, provide a link to wikipedia and commons, maybe warn me that this mushroom might easily be confused with a different one, ... The demo should make the idea rather clear.
The data needed for wikiology (mostly categorizations of objects: Is a mushroom gilled? What is its color? ...) should be editable by any user, probably as part of wikidata.
Proposed by[edit]
- Michael Faschinger Michivo - feel free to contact me at michivo+wikiology@gmail.com
Alternative names[edit]
My first idea was wikiexpert (since it is an expert system, now I prefer wikiology.
Related projects/proposals[edit]
- Wikidentify - This proposal seems to have a different approach: Whilst wikidentify seems like a query system (example: the user queries the system for all yellow diesel cars), in wikiology the system 'queries' the user for information and helps him identify an object.
Domain names[edit]
Mailing list links[edit]
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Demos[edit]
- Simplified demo showcasing how a parasol mushroom might be identified using wikiology - the demo is under construction and will experience further improvements soon. Feedback is very much appreciated. Source code is available on github.
People interested[edit]
- Archi38 (talk) 19:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC) Great idea. I can help for creating the french community