WikiResults

WikiResults is aimed to be the one central storage of uncommented lists and data in the internet. WikiResults is a project proposal.

Mission

To open a wiki space for comprehensive data and statistics like full sports results, election results, awards nominees and laureates, dierctors/members of organizations and systems, sports and non-sports record progressions, full lists of annual/periodical events etc. The new space would then leave a space in the Wikipedia for verbalized articles encyclopedic character.

Proposal

Although Wikipedia is proclaimed to be an encyclopedia and not to be the book of lists and simple storage of data, some of the articles now become traditionally filled with data with a strong tendency to see the completeness of them as the quality of the articles. It is especially visible in several areas of human activity, mostly in sports, but also in political elections, history and others.

This struggle however tends to have full sets of data instead of writing verbalized articles, which really harms the nature of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia. Furthermore, it disqualifies those articles to be developed in some extra projects like Spoken Wikipedia.

On the other side, the full statistics and/or data are warmly welcome in many areas and by many users. This fact substantiates for me the proposal of this project.

The project should be categorized as the Wikipedia, but it should include no unnecessary comments except of the data itself. It can serve as the potential secondary source of information. It can be language-specific.

Justification

• Wikipedia is being filled with lists and data without sufficient comments, without evaluating the importance of data, without adding their background and setting them into context. After starting WikiResults, Wikipedia should be linked with WikiResults (and vice versa) and can be cleaned of any non-significant data.
• WikiResults can on the contrary serve as a unique source of full data for many areas of life, which can, but may not be stored (and hidden) somewhere else in the internet and usually are spread over many places and hard to find or to be completed.

Key Features

• Categorization of data.
• Concentration of data on one place.
• Isolating data from their descriptions and background, which would be stored in Wikipedia.
• Community decided characterics, which data should be entered in which “article” to count them “complete”.

Project Name Proposal

As the name WikiData is already used for another planned project, I propose to use the name of WikiResults. Other possible names can be:

• WikiRecords;
• WikiStatistics;
• …?

(Note: Please do not inlcude other proposed names here, but into the talk page for the discussion, this section will be later removed or the proposals from WikiResults will be copied without comments here).

Examples

There are already several places on the internet, that provide excellent full coverage of some areas. They are for example:

• Politics: [Rulers.org] as a site with lists of world countries political rulers;
• Sports: [RSSSF] as a site with comprehensive football statistics;
• Arts: [IMDB] contains full casts of some films.
• etc.
  • As mentioned before, some Wikipedia articles tend to include the information of the preceding servers, to have them on one place and in one form, but the authors meanwhile forget to write more then just pure data of the respective leaders, sport events or movies.

People Interested

• Okino (author of proposal)

Discussion

• Please discuss the idea as a whole on the talk page.