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I'd be extremely grateful for any help that you can provide. If you have any
I'd be extremely grateful for any help that you can provide. If you have any
questions please let me know. I can be emailed at james.sutton (at) ucl.ac.uk . Thank you for your time! [[User:Sutton4019|Sutton4019]] 05:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
questions please let me know. I can be emailed at james.sutton (at) ucl.ac.uk . Thank you for your time! [[User:Sutton4019|Sutton4019]] 05:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
I've often thought about a wiki that would help people to connect, by interest and/or location - e.g. search for geeks in Kuala Lumpur, yogis in Alexandria, knitters in Dallas or people in Sydney's inner west who are into green technology... [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Chriswaterguy/Salsa_in_Sydney Salsa in Sydney] or [http://syxpac.org/Sydney_Geek_Events Sydney Geek Events] or [http://thehughpage.com/Geek_stuff_in_Australia Geek stuff in Australia]. A bit like [http://www.wiserearth.org/ WiserEarth] but unlimited in scope rather than just green stuff.
Is anyone attempting to do this? If not, it'd be good to start something - e.g. on Wikia Scratchpad. (I was hoping [http://local.wikia.com/ local.wikia] was it, but it seems not.)
It'd be best to incorporate social networking stuff, to help finding people in one's local area. This is not a wiki's strength, but I think Wikia's making progress. What we'd really like is to be able to bring over or tie in networking stuff from other wikis. I've read snippets about improvements to social networking sites to allow people to transfer personal information. Then there's Google's OpenSocial. But what's still missing is a way to do a single search for people, on a single site. Perhaps as things get more sophisticated, Google's OpenSocial APIs will enable this kind of thing, or there'll be some other way of marking our personal pages on different sites (a bit like how CC license marks work).
Thoughts, anyone? Anyone else think this would be a massively useful thing? --[[User:Singkong2005|Chris Watkins a.k.a. Chriswaterguy]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]</sup></small> 00:04, 14 February 2008 (EST)
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