supporting awesome wiki projects,1000ψ at a time.
This is an idea for small simple community awards to recognize great work and great ideas for wiki tools and projects. Riffing off the spirit of the Awesome Foundation, this is a compact table of awesome projects and ideas, with lightweight indicators of support for their awesomeness, awards / support they have received, and links to their best current realization or description.
Technical projects, design projects and ideas, and structural ideas (like the technical wishlist itself) are all welcome. Generators -- sources of ideas, and how to identify or extract them -- are also welcome, and may give rise to future individual projects.
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Starting with a single global group, reviewing projects from anywhere and everywhere.
One way to reify awe: use wikis (ψ) as tokens, give all editors 100 to start. Tickets are 100, and the resulting 1k goes to the selected projects (or associate accounts). Start with a monthly cycle, expand to match interest.
Project table
editKey: (we may want a balance across these types)
❤️ - recognition for past work | 🏗️ - recognition for ongoing project | 📜 - proposal to do future work | 💡 - wish for someone to fulfill (w/ a project)
Votes: * - support, ⁑ - strong support (limit 1/day), ⁂ - top support (limit 1/week)
Name | 🔗 | 📦 | Description | Votes |
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Recognition days | ❤️ | The existence of Brion Vibber Day and Magnus Manske Day to honor core tool dev | ||
Technische Wünsche | de | ❤️ | the Technische Wünsche survey, starting with Raymond's work in 2013, which gave rise to other wishlists since! | * |
Wishlist mining | 💡 | [gen] Finding tables of past technical wishlists + their outcomes; scraping those without tables yet; collating + linking that below | ⁑ | |
JdS redesign | [1] | ❤️ | [design] Joaquin da Silva's gorgeous conceptual Wikipedia redesign, from animated logos to outdoor media campaigns. | * |
The Agora | [2] | 🏗️ | [x-wiki] A federated digital garden project that uses wiki markup + interfaces w/ mediawiki | * |
*.wiki | 💡 | Turn on the *.wiki language-code domains gifted to us by the .wiki TLD (intended to be used for redirects to the appropriate language) | * | |
Dark Mode | 💡,🏗️ | Making a 'dark mode' option available to readers, however possible | ||
wikibase farming | 🏗️ | Making hosted wikibase available to everyone | ||
MW catalog | 💡 | Yellow pages of MW instances, w/ metadata. Adding an "add to catalog" option on installation | ||
Interested participants
editIf you want to be involved, or are already doing something like this, please list yourself and a link to a userpage equivalent (or project page) below:
See also
edit- Encouraging others to try specific projects: WikiMoney (2003 ;), Bounty Board, Reward Board
- Awards for existing work: Coolest Tool Award
- Lists of wishes and proposals:
- Tech Wishlists - Global survey (2022), German Wikipedia, Wikisource
- Commons wishlist - for Commons and GLAM (2022), Open letter (2022), WMF plan
- Passive measures of interest: top-voted bugzilla tickets; top-awarded / followed phab tickets