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Proposals for new projects

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This page hosts proposals for new projects that are inline with the Wikimedia Foundation goal of spreading and promoting knowledge. Before adding a new proposal, see the new project policy. Please only make proposals on this page if you are willing to take responsibility for it; otherwise, post it on the discussion page.

If you want to propose a new language for an existing project, please do on Requests for new languages. If you want to propose closing an existing project, see Proposals for closing projects. If you are suggesting an enhancement which requires a change to the MediaWiki software, please file a feature request in MediaZilla. If you have a proposal for any other type of enhancement to an existing project, please visit that project and attempt to gather interest there.

1 Information
2 Requests with working demos
3 Requests without demos
4 See also

Information

Notes to consider

Hosting: Remember that the Wikimedia Foundation is not a free hosting company for any kind of wikis. If your project does not fit the Foundation's ideals, try a wiki hosting site such as Wikia, ScribbleWiki or wikidev.net (see a list of wiki hosts with reviews), or download and host MediaWiki yourself.
History: Individuals attempting to create a new project may benefit from reading the Wikipedia timeline and Uses of a wiki.
Be persistent. Don't take criticism directed at proposals personally. There have been a number of mistakes made in the past in regards to starting up new project ideas, and several of the "veteran" users are afraid of repeating those same mistakes. New ideas are taken seriously, although it should be admitted that the process of going from an idea for a new project to actually turning on a server that is implementing that idea will take quite a bit of time and effort. If you are proposing these ideas, be willing to take some "arrows" in your back, a lot of criticism, cynicism, and outright disbelief that your ideas are going to work. If it really is a good idea, there will be others who will be willing to help you out as well. Be persistent and don't give up right away.

The last major project that made the jump from a project idea to something going on its own was Wikiversity. Some veteran users are suggesting that it will be a year or two before any other project idea will be accepted as a new separate project, if ever. If you want to see how a project idea has been successful, it would be wise to see what was done to go from idea to an actual project, please look at the project proposal page for Wikiversity. In particular, click on the history button and look back in time over some of the complications they went through before going "live". Any projects that don't live up to this sort of standard for coming into existance will likely not be considered as a new project by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board. Don't get discouraged, but it is not going to be easy either.

If you see something that doesn't fit into any current Wikimedia project, could be done using MediaWiki software, can be distributed using the GFDL (or very similar license) for republishing, please feel free to add a suggestion below.

It has been suggested that many of the current proposals could be merged into one of the main projects below.

Wikipedia: One other place to strongly consider is Wikipedia's series of subprojects, WikiProject. Many of the proposals listed below could be incorporated into one of those projects, or perhaps a new WikiProject could be started instead. Wikipedia is evolving and changing over time, and there is already quite a bit that can be adapted from the content on Wikipedia, not to mention involving people who commonly use and edit Wikipedia.
Wikisource: Wikisource also has a similar effort for larger subprojects of Wikisource that are focused on original source material that will require quite a bit of effort to transfer to that project. This would be things like historical dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other multi-volume reference works that are of a historical nature and can be copied according to the terms of the GFDL.
Wikibooks: In addition, it has been suggested on many of the proposals listed below that a good place to look would be with Wikibooks. If you are trying to put together a large collection of factual information into one place, starting a Wikibook may be a good place to go. If it doesn't quite fit Wikibooks, the other editors at Wikibooks will try to help you get to the correct place as well.

Existing projects

Before proposing a new project, make sure it doesn't already exist; see the list of existing projects below (see also the full list).

Main projects

Wikibooks
- Wikijunior (Children's books)
- Cookbook
- How-tos bookshelf
Wikinews
Wikipedia (encyclopedia)
Wikisound (Spoken pages)
Wikisource (source texts)
Wikimedia Commons (images and media)
Wikispecies (taxological database)
Wikiquote (quotations)
Wiktionary (Dictionary and thesaurus)
Wikiversity

Special projects

Wikimania 2008 - 2007, 2006 (for the annual conference hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation)
MediaWiki.org
test wiki
Nostalgia Wiki (2001 copy of the English Wikipedia)

Also see Sites using MediaWiki.

Instructions

Read the detailed information on the policy page.
Create an account and a user page on this wiki, so people can address their questions to you.
Create a page here at Meta where you describe your plan in detail and add this to the Proposed projects category.
Add your proposal to this page using the recommended format.
It is recommended that you advertise your project. Good places to do so are on Goings-on and on the Foundation-l mailing-list (account needed).

Requests with working demos

iWiki

Naming suggestions: iWiki/naming
Working demo: https://iwiki.wikidot.com/
Domain name: iWiki.org, wikifriends.org, wikiconnect.org., wikime.org
Scope: A safe social environment that allows people to talk to each other; to connect and interact. No adult content is discussed, etc... Everything is appropiate for people of all ages. Compare to Myspace, or Facebook.
Details: iWiki
Comments: Talk:iWiki
Proposer: User:Princess Janay
Date: 10:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
People interested in joining

Princess Janay
winnetou12

Wikisick

Naming suggestions: Wikisick/naming
Working demo

Wikia: Diagnosis (primarily)
Wetpaint: Cyberchondria

Domain name: illnet.org, sicknet.org, sickwiki.org, wiagnosis.org, wikiclinics.org or wikisick.org (all parked)
Scope: A wiki where every article is a real medical case
Details: Wikisick
Comments: Talk:Wikisick
Proposer: User:Mikael Häggström
Date: 10:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
People interested in joining

Mikael Häggström

Project name

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: Wiki Språk (swedish), Wiki Lang (english), Wikiguage
Domain name: -
Scope: Wiki Språk är wikin för alla språk. [he says: "Wiki Språk is the wiki for all languages."]
Details: -
Comments: -
Proposer: Max sonnelid
Date: 15:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
People interested in joining

Max sonnelid

Demo sites

in swedish: User:Max sonnelid/WikiLang

Statistics Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: -
Naming suggestions: Wikitistics, Statistics Wiki, Wiki Stats, Wiki Statistics, WikiData
Domain name: statistics.wikia.com
Scope: Wikitistics is the wiki of all statistics.

Search for statistics on any subject. Publish your own statistic, add statistics from other sources. Discuss any statistic with others.

Details: http://statistics.wikia.com/
Comments: -
Proposer: Jamesssss 20:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Date: ~
People interested joining

User:Jamesssss
Karpeth 18:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Mugunth 06:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
--alexscho
-- Felipe Aira 02:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
--92.74.88.157 18:43, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Demo sites

in english: http://statistics.wikia.com/

Eichsfeld Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: none till 2day
Naming suggestions: EIC, EicWiki,Eichsfeld,EichsfeldWiki
Domain name: wiki.eichsfeld.net (http://wiki.eichsfeld.net is connected)
Scope: Wiki about and for the region Eichsfeld in germany; europe - first targets: very detailed history,

genealogy (names and archives from Eichsfeld), geography, politics, business relations and much more regional related content. This very fresh wiki would be the core part of the Eichsfeld.Net v.2.0 - the open, free and uncommercial Eichsfeld portal.

Details: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php/Hauptseite
Comments: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php?title=Diskussion:Eichsfeld
Proposer: User:nielsd - email'nd@eichsfeld.net'
Date: Sat Jul 28 00:45:28 CEST 2007
People interested joining

User:nielsd

Demo sites

in german: http://wiki.eichsfeld.net/index.php/Hauptseite
in english: under construction this days

--Nielsd 22:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Rodovid (Genealogy Wiki)

Link to Proposal on Mailing List

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/006370.html

Naming Suggestions

Rodovid, Wikifamily (already a wikimedia domain), Wikinealogy, Wikipeople, Wikitree. All suggestions would be ".org" and could use the slogan "Fully functional global family tree".

Domain Name

http://rodovid.org

Scope

A fully functional global family tree, Rodovid is an attempt to create a free familly tree site, that anyone can use. Example of ancectors tree. 7 generations. To see 43 generations read instruction directly on page. http://en.rodovid.org/wk/Special:Tree/29829

Details

Rodovid

Comments

Talk:Rodovid

what about the WeRelate suggestion above? NDCompuGeek
Just noting the existence of a genealogy wikia --Izno

Proposer: User:Baya
Proposed Names: wikifamily.org
People Interested Joining

User:master_flosse
User:Bjwebb
User:APPER
User:Morais69br
User:Dallan
Trevor macinnis
Balû
Lhademmor
— Dunc|☺
Roberth
Wikiacc (talk) en.w en.w
Red Baron
User:Backscheider
Holden
Pcu123456789
Andre Engels
User:mayhew18
User:Chaerani
Ek7
Yann
Yakudza
User:PSMax8956
User:Chamberlian
User:Rakuten06
User:Dunning
User:CrnaGora (en)
VPliousnine
Manfroze
TDN169
Argento
Thanatosimii
Elcairo
Wknight94
Dovi
Bmunden
Maxipuchi
Johan R (sweden)
—Mike
Greeves
NDCompuGeek
thesublime514
SPQRobin
en:User:Quadratus
AlexEagar
R0MAN0
~ putnik
en:User:Psychless
Ionas68224
Andre Mesquita
TFMgames
Dvorsky
Arman Aziz
ElbonianFL
Felipe Aira As long as we'll have a Tagalog edition.
User:Karpeth
User:Ahonc
User:Abyssal_leviathin
--alexscho
Arctic Gnome
Cato

Wikireason

Naming discussion: Wikireason/naming
Working demo: Wikireason
Domain name: wikireason.org, wikireason.net (registered by User:AdamRetchless, with active demo site)
Scope: Collecting, cataloging, developing, and analyzing arguments.
Details: Wikibate (original proposed name)
Comments: Talk:Wikibate
Proposer: User:David Bruhn
People interested joining

Wikikids

(Merged with the Wikichildren proposal)

Link to original proposal on mailing list

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-January/015108.html
another talk/proposal : http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/thread.html#30511

Naming suggestions: WikiKids, KidsWiki etc.
Domain name: http://www.wikikids.org, http://de.wikikids.org ... kid.wikipedia.org, kidipedia, www.wikidia.org, en.wikikids.org
Scope: A wikipedia version for kids aged between 8 and 13 years old with specific themes and in a simple language. Children so as teenager and adults should be welcomed to edit the articles and help with the other wiki task.
Details: Wikikids
Comments: Talk:Wikikids
Proposers

First proposer: Necrophorus 20:55, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
New proposer : Astirmays 20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikichildren proposer: Gray Porpoise (Date: June 16, 2006)

Differences between wikikids and wikichildren proposal: wikichildren offer to create different account for adults and children, the last having less privileges.
Demo sites

in dutch: english explanation about Wikikids.nl
in french Vikidia and a nice new project: Wikimini
in german: http://www.zum.de/grundschulwiki/index.php/Hauptseite
in english: english website

People interested joining Wikikids

(see http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_new_projects&oldid=451356#Wikichildren)

Gray Porpoise
Blue caterpillar
127.0.0.1 (talk)
Seahen
Minun ^Spiderman
T®ee ba rk
Necrophorus
TomK32 WR Internet
Leon
FutureCrash
Ryan524
Scott Gall
Brisvegas
Astirmays
"Sir James Paul
Michael Billington
William.lethal
V60 ^{VMTalk · VMake}
Candy-Panda
Greeves
Microchip08
DeSalvionjr
Moez ^talk
GrooveDog (Currently a WikiKids admin)
Alastor Moody
Hirohisat
Andrewjd
Redrocketboy
OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:40, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
ARkY // ¡HaBLaR!
--Qmwne235 23:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC) (Qmwne235)
Nothing444, Dont contact me in metawiki, only in wikipedia! 20:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[1]

I would like to make a comment. I am a kid, and Simple English Wikipedia is simple enough for kids in my estimation. We also have wikijunior. To me, I also don't see it as good for the children's accounts to have less priveliges (sp?) because kids have the ability to do the same things adults do, like run their own wiki (that is mine). The encyclopædia should have no one below, no one above. Ionas68224 06:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Simple english WP only exists in english (yes !) They were no other simple language wikipedia opened after it. On the "demo" site in french, children don't have less privileges, the younger just are less likely to become sysop, that's all. Astirmays 18:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Simple English wikipedia is not necessarily for children, but for none native speakers of English. Redrocketboy 15:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiMed

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007854.html
Naming suggestions: WikiMD seems to be taken, so WikiMed or WikiMedicine sound like options.
Working demo: http://editthis.info/wikimed
Domain name: en.wikimed.org, en.wikimedicine.org, etc. (neither registered)
Scope: A wiki dedicated to providing medical information to the public under a copyleft license.
Details: Medical dictionary wiki
Comments: Talk:Medical dictionary wiki
Proposer: Messedrocker
Date: June 17, 2006
People interested joining

Medical dictionary wiki#Supporters http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Medical_dictionary_wiki#Supporters

Wikitainment Guides

Working Demo: http://www.pop-cult.org/Wikitainment/
(it will eventually become www.wikitainment.com)
Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l (HELP, please!!)
Naming suggestions: Wikitainment Guide, Wikitainment, the Pop-cult Guides
Domain name: http://www.wikitainment.com (state of registration)
Scope: A wiki designed to focus on all contemporary entertainment fiction in different media. Closely tied with Wikipedia, it will contain all the pop cult info about characters, episodes, series, comic book issues, movies, singers, bands, labels and videogames that is often labeled as "un-encyclopedic" by deletionist Wikipedia editors.; Wikipedia could move the information there. This would save a great deal of edit conflicts between Deletionist and inclusionist editors.; It will be divided in 7 or more classifications:

Video Games
Television
Movies
Comics
Music
Radio
Toys
Sports
People
Technology
Fashion
Books

Another possibility is instead of creating a whole new wiki, creating this wiki within Wikipedia as a siamese twin sister project of Wikipedia, or a sub-wiki.

Details: Wikitainment
Commets: Talk:Wikitainment
Proposer: User:T-man - ajtorrepuerto@hotmail.com
Date: 17-oct-2006
People interested joining

T-man
Sir James Paul
--Crna Gora (en-wiki)
Keith @ English and 中文
Jayden54
Saponification
Maxipuchi
Greeves

~~DeSalvionjr©~~

No such user [2]. drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 01:38, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
--alexscho

Notes

This one is rigged. There's no "User:DeSalvionjr" which looks suspiciously like Civkit's vote. drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 01:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

TranslateWiki

Naming suggestions: TranslateWiki, WikiTranslate, (you can add a name!), Wikiterpret, Wiklanguage, Babelwiki
Domain name: http://www.translatewiki.org (state of registration: taken by someone); http://www.wikitranslate.org (state of registration: taken by someone); http://www.babelwiki.org (state of registration: taken by a geek. if babelwiki will be accepted, maybe (didn't contact) he will donate the domain); wikiterpret.org (state of registration: AVAILABLE)
Demo: http://translation.wikia.com/
Scope: Translatewiki is a proposal for a wiki to translate words and sentences. This is based on Wiktionary, but there are differences (see the description page). You can compare it with a machine translator.
Details: TranslateWiki
Comments: Talk:TranslateWiki
Proposer: SPQRobin
Date: 17:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
People interested joining: To all the people that would like to join: See Requests for new languages/Wiktionary multilingual

SPQRobin
master_flosse
Quadratus
Nori
Bifacial
Microchip08
Greeves
Funpika
Aforsys
213.168.111.227
Tonyfroio
Ionas68224
213.10.27.88 21:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiVote

Naming suggestions

WikiVote, WikiDemocracy, Wikipolls, W.O.D (Wiki Online Democracy), Wikiocracy

Working demo

http://wipoll.com/wipol/

Domain name

en.wikivote.org (not registered)

Scope

An online democracy, where people create polls, and vote. Kind of like http://wipoll.com/wipol/, only categorized, and easier to use.

Details

WikiVote

Comments

Talk:Wikivote

No! A big, flat out no. Wikimedia Foundation are for free knowledge, not polls. I don't see how "anyone can edit" is special for a thing like polls. Also, a true democracy does not "vote on consensus". Ionas68224 07:00, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Oppose - per Ionas68224. I don't think we need a everyone can edit poll. Hirohisat 06:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but Oppose, the entire idea of the Wikimedia foundation is for free knowledge, not polls, also Wikimedia is NOT a place to test democracy!--Kushan I.A.K.J 07:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

OpposeGeo.plrd 19:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposer

User:Openforbusiness

Date

October 28, 2006

People interested joining

User:Openforbusiness
User:Laleena
--Desalvionjr 22:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
mailto:uri.valevski@gmail.com
Greeves
User:Scigirl543

WikiEarth

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikimaps, Wikiatlas, Wiktlas, Maps, Geo, WikiEarth, Wikiography, Wikiplaces, wikiworld
Working Demo: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth.
Domain name: http://www.wikiearth.org
Scope: Collect maps in a wiki, to search and hold interesting locations in the world. It could eventually develope technology to translate maps to the same format
Details: WikiEarth
Commets: Talk:WikiEarth
Proposer: F. Terran, mail.
People interested joining

Scifiintel----
Boguslav
--Desalvionjr 22:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Greeves
JJohnson1701 - definitely. Something where we can pull up a map of, say, England, and click on the language links to see the names in foreign languages, and click on that language's article on that city, village, or whatever. That'd be awesome. Perhaps it would need a list of the places, perhaps in system messages, and then a translation as well.
JosN A Wikiatlas exists on Commons already. That could be transferred to a new Wikiearth, Wikiatlas or whatever. A atlas with a lot of information does not seem logical to me for Commons, so, a new wiki would be preffered, I guess.
User:WikiEarth I really like the idea of having a wiki atlas, even before I saw this proposal. I made my own wiki called wikiearth if you want to check it out.
Jeepday
User:JeroenKon
TheFearow 21:38, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Seems great - in a wiki environment, we can provide some fantastic detail on places not otherwise discussed in traditional atlases.
Like Wikimapia? OK... Support. Ionas68224 07:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 01:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Anonymous Dissident - I like the name Wikimaps best of all. Anonymous Dissident 10:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Diez2 I like it. 18:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Altrensa 16:14 - 26 Novembre 2007
--alexscho
Sounds like a good idea...--Kushan I.A.K.J 13:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Soxred93 01:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Relevant links: http://www.inopia.org/wikiearth WikiEarth

Wikicode

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/012950.html
Naming suggestions: Wikicode
Domain name: wikicode.org (state of registration: not registered)
Demo Wiki: http://wikicode.wiki-site.com/
Scope: A repository of source code for any programming language released under GPL or other agreed upon license.
Details: WikiCode
Comments: Talk:WikiCode
Proposer: Ryan524
Date: 29 December 2006
People interested joining

WikiTimeScale

Link to request on mailing list: None.
Naming suggestions: WikiTimeScale

Wikitime Microchip08 17:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Wikihistory Microchip08 17:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Domain name: http://www.WikiTimeScale.org (already registered, up and running)
Scope: A Wiki dedicated to timelines. It visualizes historic events, persons and so on graphically on a timescale.
Details: WikiTimeScale
Comments: Talk:WikiTimeScale
Proposer: DontPanic
Date: 5 October 2006
People interested in joining

WikiThrift

Naming Suggestion: WikiThrift
Demo: wikithrift.com
Goal: Froogle + Wiki for online and brick-and-mortar merchants.
Details: WikiThrift
To-do list

Contribute
Whittle down a set of pillars
Port over relevant templates, namespaces, classes, and help documents
Design a better logo, probably with an open contest

People interested in helping

SpeedWiki

Link to request on mailing list: None.
Naming suggestions: Please suggest on talk page.
Domain name: [www.speedwiki.org] (Proposal), speedwiki.elwiki.com for demo.
Scope: Wiki for collections on how to get jobs done fast.
Details: SpeedWiki
Comments: Talk:SpeedWiki
Proposer: Somebody
Date: 17:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
People interested joining

Qrc2006, I'm interested in this, but the name is terrible, maybe WikiDIY(DoItYourself) or WikiGuide or WikiReferance or WikiInstructions or WikiHelp even
wikipedia:WikiHow, althogh not a WM project, already exists for this purpose. Firefoxman 16:49, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikicafés

Link to request on mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/012203.html
Naming suggestions: wikicafés, wikicafé, wikicaff...
Domain name: wikicafes.org (not yet registered).
Scope: Wikicafés is a global guide to cafés, coffeehouses and tearooms (and similar; there seems to be a bit of confusion on Wikipedia about what these places are called in different parts of the world). Like Wikipubs but focusing on establishments that don't (primarily) serve alcohol. Content to include reviews, contact details, photos, anecdotes, suggestions, etc.
Details: Wikicafes
Comments: Talk:Wikicafes
Proposer: User:samwilson — sam at co-operista dot com
Date: 2006-12-16
People interested joining

Sam Wilson
Equazcion (Talk • Contribs)
21:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Comment: Kind of like a wiki version of Zagat's. Good idea. Restaurant reviews would probably be perfect for a wiki.
Karpeth

WikiThink

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: WikiThink
Domain name: wikithink.org (not registered)
Demo: http://wikithink.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page
Scope: Open research wiki. Where all "Original Research" articles that cannot be put in WikiPedia go! Setup research topics and launch brainstorming discussions. A place to share great ideas in all fields of science. These ideas that are even in a premature stage but with constructive criticism, collaboration, interaction and synergy they can become the next breakthroughs. This is not a wiki for things that exist, but for the things to come!
Details: Wikithink
Comments: Talk:Wikithink

wikithinkadmin at gmail dot com

Discussion and real application

http://wikithink.wiki-site.com/index.php/WikiThink_Research

Proposer: User:Dps
Date: 2007-01-14
People interested joining

Dps
Desalvionjr 22:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Cbdorsett 06:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Rohar1 13:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Pi72 16:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Orthologist
Diego Marcos
Greeves
Pharamund
--Tcbmotors 17:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
--Ben ^{(say g'day!)}
Karpeth 18:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Redrocketboy
User:Abyssal_leviathin
User:Nahraana

ScholarWiki

Domain name: http://www.scholarwiki.com (registered by User:Scholarwiki, with active demo site)
Scope: This Wiki is an independent project by User:Scholarwiki and is:

A central place for students, professionals and faculty to communicate in a WIKI setting!
ScholarWIki allows users to create pages and page groups for their Laboratory, Class, School Club/Activity, Research Group and more!
ScholarWiki also has resources for potential students and Scholarship information
Users can also post/view/edit Science Methods and Techniques
Scholarwiki also has a Laboratory equipment/services Classified section and Job ad section.

Details: This WIKI is a great way to create a database of institutions, faculty, students and professionals by academic disciplines. One can link existing home pages or create one wiki style

Comments and Suggestions [3] or User Talk:Scholarwiki
Proposer: User:Scholarwiki - Name: Mark Kozubal - e-mail: mkozubal@gmail.com

People interested in joining

69.145.66.23 03:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Futbolpedia

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: Futbolpedia
Domain name: futbolpedia.org (not registered)
Demo: http://futbol.wikia.com
Scope: wiki dedicated to soccer in general, history, statistic, biographies, data in general. In Spanish
Details: Futbolpedia
Comments: Talk:Futbolpedia
Proposer: User:Atalanta86
Date: 2007-01-26
People interested joining

Atalanta86 08:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
User:Scigirl543
Altrensa 16:12 - 26 Novembre 2007

Wikiscore

Link to request on mailing list: none
Naming suggestions: Wikiscore, Wikisports, Wikiscoreboard
Domain name: wikiscore.org (not registered)
Demo: Click Here
Scope: A place where people make articles about a sports game, a sports player, or a team. Also there can be lists of just stats. The articles on a sports game would include many details (for example a Hit or RBI).
Details: Wikiscore
Comments: Talk:Wikiscore
Proposer: User:Tcbmotors - email
Date: April 6, 2007
People interested joining

Tcbmotors

Wikipubs

Link to request on mailing list: None
Naming suggestions: Wikipubs
Domain name: Currently registered http://wikipubs.org, http://wikipubs.net, http://wikipubs.com
Scope: Wikipubs seeks to provide a source for the sharing of information relating to pubs, clubs, bars and festivals throughout the world. It will achieve this by encouraging users to post information, stories, anecdotes and reviews of their local pubs, clubs, bars and festivals. Wikipubs will also encourage discussion on pubs, clubs, bars and festivals between patrons of these establishments. Thus building a database for users to refer to when planning an enjoyable night out.
Details: Wikipubs
Comments: Talk:Wikipubs
Proposer: James mail
Demo Site: http://wikipubs.org

WikiStock

Naming suggestions: WikiStock
Domain name: www.wikistock.com
Scope: WikiStock is created to bring together a community of traders and investors who are interested in a consolidated repository of all things related to stock trading. The driving focus of the content on this site should be of immediate relevancy to a stock trader, and less focused on historical information.
Details: User:Rovo79
Comments: Talk:Rovo79
Proposer: User:Rovo79 - email: rovo79 at gmail dot com
March 26th, 2007
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FireWiki

Naming suggestions: FireWiki
Domain name: www.theFireWiki.org
Scope: FireWiki is an online knowledge base for the fire service. The concept is to collectively build a resource of terms, articles, and information that can be utilized by emergency responders and shared among agencies. The effort is to consolidate information for all to utilize, revise, and generate.
Details: FireWiki Proposal
Comments: Talk:Mfinney
Proposer: User:Mfinney - email: finney.md at gmail dot com
May 2nd, 2007
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WeRelate

Naming Suggestions: WeRelate
Goal: Create an easy to use, non-sectarian and noncommerical genealogically formatted wiki, thus making it easy for family historians to collaborate and share genealogical research online. See the video
Details: WeRelate
Demo: http://www.werelate.org/fte/
Comments: WeRelate would like to discuss affiliation with the WikiMedia Foundation. See, WeRelate article
Proposer: SolveigQuass
Proposed names: WeRelate; GenealogyCenter; we're open on this one.
Working Demo: www.WeRelate.org

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Kunkelfruit Wiki

Link to request on mailing list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/96031#96031
Naming suggestions: Kunkelfruit Wiki
Domain name: kunkelfruitwiki.org (unregistered), wikiproduct.org, currently: scriblerus.net/kunkelfruit
Scope: A home for free, collaborative articles on how popular products are made.
Details: http://scriblerus.net/kunkelfruit
Comments: Talk:Kunkelfruit
Proposer: User:Kunkelfruit - editor@scriblerus.net
Date: 27 June 2007
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Kunkelfruit

WikiThesis

Link to request on mailing list: Not yet requested
Naming suggestions: WikiThesis or WikiEssays
Domain name: wikithesis.org (suggested) currently unregistered.
Scope: WikiThesis provides a Wiki for users to write essays developing a thesis in any field from current events to Irish poetry.
Details: WikiThesis
Demo: http://wikithesis.scribblewiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
Comments: Talk:WikiThesis
Proposer: Cool3 - email
Date: 29 June 2007
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Betawiki

Link to request on mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-August/032620.html
Naming suggestions: Betawiki or migrated into Incubator
Current site: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page run by User:Nikerabbit
Details: A wiki helping with translations other changes to the system messages. There is already a well structured site with a lot of activity, but it is not hosted by Wikimedia. This is a proposal to do that. More at Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia. The extension Translate is already part of the MediaWiki subversion repository and awaits (Wikimedia) developer approval before it can be added to Incubator.
Comments: Meta:Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia
Proposer: User:Steinninn - steinninn [at] steinninn.is
Date: 03:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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Steinninn
Siebrand
Meno25
MF-Warburg
birdy
SPQRobin
Cbrown1023 talk
Aphaia I strongly support to integrate Betawiki and Incubator.
Purodha Blissenbach
Raymond de
Dundak
Thogo I'm already involved in the Betawiki, ack Aphaia.
Yyy
Ooswesthoesbes
Olaf Voljavo
Seb35
O—already translating
AlefZet

Chains of Reason

Scope: To be an encyclopedia of reasoning.
Details: Chains of Reason
Working demo: www.chainsofreason.org
Domain name: www.chainsofreason.org (registered by User:Derrick)
Comments: Talk:Chains of Reason
Mailing list discussion: discussion on foundation-l
discussion on wikipedia-l
Proposer: Derrick
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Derrick
Son sonson
Cmelbye - This project sounds amazing!
Tharikrish
Warkos - Yes, this sounds very promising!

Wikicommunity

Link to request on mailing list: x
Naming suggestions: Wikicommunity
Domain name: [4]
Working Demo: [5]
Scope: Community-building for WikiMedia contributors
Details: Wikicommunity
Comments: Talk:Wikicommunity
Proposer: User:Sarsaparilla
Date: 01.01.2007
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Sarsaparilla 04:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Walton^talk 12:54, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
David in DC 18:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Yamakiri 03:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Marlith ^T/C 03:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 21:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Metalcore424 22:29, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Blow of Light 21:43, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Tiptoety 00:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
WikiEarth 22:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiAlmanac

Link to request on mailing list: Mailing list pending
Naming suggestions: WikiAlmanach, WikiAlmanack, Wikmanac
Domain name: www.wikialmanac.org
Scope: To create an almanac that anyone can edit.
Details: If this doesn't make it as a project, I would like to keep it myself.
Comments: -
Proposer: Nothing444, Dont contact me in metawiki, only in wikipedia!
14: 57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
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Nothing444, Dont contact me in metawiki, only in wikipedia! 14:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Demo sites

English Demo

Requests without demos

Arts/media-related proposals

Wikicorpus

Link to request on mailing list: (none)
Naming suggestions: Wikicorpus
Domain name: http://www.wikicorpus.org
Scope: An open corpus for people to write their own essay, but the essays must not use any filthy language; People can write some novel, stort composition or poem in there, and other people can discuss the essays in the discussion.
Details: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicorpus Wikicorpus
Proposer: User:Matin Luther
Date: 20/5/2006
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Comments

Talk:Wikicorpus

I really have no problem with essays, please see #Wikithesis above, however it is absolutely stupid for you to censor these essays. A powerful and passionate voice is necessary for a good essay. Besides, who is to judge "filthy" from "clean" and deny one's civil liberties because of it. I proudly declare, Fuck, no.

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iWiki

Wikisick

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Statistics Wiki

Eichsfeld Wiki

Rodovid (Genealogy Wiki)

Wikireason

Wikikids

WikiMed

Wikitainment Guides

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TranslateWiki

WikiVote

WikiEarth

Wikicode

WikiTimeScale

WikiThrift

SpeedWiki

Wikicafés

WikiThink

ScholarWiki

Futbolpedia

Wikiscore

Wikipubs

WikiStock

FireWiki

WeRelate

Kunkelfruit Wiki

WikiThesis

Betawiki

Chains of Reason

Wikicommunity

WikiAlmanac

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Arts/media-related proposals

Wikicorpus