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== Wikidocumentaries is a wiki for small history ==
 
== Wikidocumentaries is a wiki for small history ==
Wikidocumentaries is collaborative platform for citizen historians. It is based on the existing content in Wikimedia projects, and it will be complemented with small and lesser topics. Small places are eligible – capes and coves, paths and outhouses – and all related people ever lived or happenings they were involved in. The limit is the scope of the project, micro history, and respecting privacy. You cannot include content of a living person without their consent.
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Wikidocumentaries is a collaborative platform for citizen historians. It is based on the existing content in Wikimedia projects, and it will be complemented with small and lesser topics. Small places are eligible – capes and coves, paths and outhouses – and all related people ever lived or happenings they were involved in. The boundaries are the scope of the project, micro history, and respecting privacy. You cannot include content about a living person without their consent.
  
 
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Revision as of 09:54, 28 November 2018

Wikidocumentaries is a wiki for small history

Wikidocumentaries is a collaborative platform for citizen historians. It is based on the existing content in Wikimedia projects, and it will be complemented with small and lesser topics. Small places are eligible – capes and coves, paths and outhouses – and all related people ever lived or happenings they were involved in. The boundaries are the scope of the project, micro history, and respecting privacy. You cannot include content about a living person without their consent.

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Aggregating content

Wikidocumentaries brings together data, articles, and medua from Wikimedia projects and ties it in with content from other open repositories.

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Crowdsourcing everything

Geolocating images

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Reading, recording, displaying, curating, and citing sources

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Finding and citing related newspaper articles

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Enriching image metadata

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Open knowledge

All information recycled in Wikidocumentaries is openly licensed or Public Domain. Enriched data will be recycled to open projects in Wikimedia and other open projects.

Demo

http://wikidocumentaries-demo.wmflabs.org