Forum:Wikililo.org

WikiLilo
WikiLilo is intended to be a wiki where all the lost and deleted wikipedia articles can go. I know many [wikipedia] users are increasingly frustrated with the somewhat contraversial removal policies (notability being an example). Wikipedia creators sometimes spend hours creating a page that is later deemed un-notable.

Several years ago, I (MR.R) really took a liking to wikipedia because I could find information on certain less popular items that I could find very little information on in more traditional sources. While I understand, and concede, that not every piece of information is worth having in wikipedia, I think a lot of deleted stubs and less-notable articles could be useful to others. That caused me to think about WikiLilo. I was told that "Lilo" means "temporarily lost" in Hawaiian, so I registered the domains WikiLilo.com,.net,.org.

Possible Slogans and Logos

 * WikiLilo - The Lost Pieces
 * Possible Logo: The missing pieces from the top of the Wikipedia ball.
 * WikiLilo - Where Lost Articles are Found

Discussions
Before requesting a new Wiki for this, I wanted to try to get a consensus as to whether others think this could be useful. I can envision getting additional support by asking Wikipedian Admins to be kind enough to add a WikiLilo comment to their removal notices ie. "This article does not appear to be notable according to the Wikipedia guidelines. Perhaps this article should be moved to the WikiLilo."

Arguments Pro WikiLilo
I think it's a great idea! There is a search on Foodtvnetwork.com that will only hold a recipe for a certain amount of time and then it's gone! I just hate that! It's always the one I need! (10:05, 27 January 2007 68.100.132.235)

Comments
I think this is too broad. Deleted Wikipedia articles can already be saved on Wikia, but it's best if they go to a wiki on a specific subject so they have a community to look after them. For example, if a Wikipedia article on a website is listed for deletion, it can be copied to the Internet Wikia, if an article on a Muppet episode was deleted, perhaps the Muppet Wikia community would choose to rescue it for their site. A general site for everything deleted isn't likely to be well enough maintained to prevent it being full of only junk (and most of what Wikipedia deletes is junk. :) Angela talk

Great feedback Angela. Not sure if I concur with everything (but then again I proposed it). First, the very article on adding new wikis states to be "as broad as possible," which tends to contradict the broad statement above. I'm certainly against vandalism, but my biggest concern is with notability. I (among many others) find that it is a very subjective term. What if we limited the scope of WikiLilo to be a place for only articles that were removed due to being non-notable? MR.R talk