Re: Is there a genealogy Wiki anywhere?

On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:25:48 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Morgan
<daniel.f.morgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On May 7, 2:11 pm, Steve Hayes <hayesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Is there a Wiki for genealogy anywhere?
>>
>> I haven't seen such a thing mentioned in the newsgroups, but it seems a
>> logical kind of thing to have.
>>
>> About 20 years ago, before the Web got going, I played around with
hypertext
>> using TurboPascal, and created a kind of beginners guide for genealogy.
In
>> those days such things were called "expert systems".
>>
>> It seems to me that a Wiki could do the same thing, but on a far bigger
scale,
>> and with far more information. It could be a truly expert system,
making use
>> of all sorts of people's expertise.
>>
>> So I'm wondering why I haven't heard of such a thing.

>The Guild of One-Name Studies has one (members only).
>Dick Eastman has one called the Encyclopedia of Genealogy: 
http://www.eogen.com/
>FamilySearch has one in beta:  http://wiki.familysearch.org
>
>How different do you think Genuki would be if it became a wiki? (Not
>that I can really imagine that happening.)

Genuki was one of the things that I thought could be usefully done as a
Wiki,
and the fact that it isn't, and that nobody in the genealogy newsgroups
seems
to mention wikis when people ask about resources made me wonder why I'd
never
heard of them, and whether there was some great disadvantage (I can see
that
there might be a problem with pranksters maliciously entering false
information, but there are surely ways around that). 

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