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WikiNames will be a place where the history and stats of names can be shown. The idea came about when User:GingerGeek was chatting with User:Eptalon about Name articles on the SimpleWiki. We were unsure whether the Name articles should be on Wikitionary or Wikipedia as there can be a definition of a name (Wikitionary), as well as its history and origins (Wikipedia). This project will include the definitions in several languages as well as the history, stats and links to Famous People with that name.

An article may include:

  • Language which the Name originated from
  • The definition of the name
  • Earliest records of the use of the name
  • Famous people with that name (Deceased and Alive)
  • Stats about the name e.g 132nd most popular name in America
  • Other Facts and figures, etc. relating to the name

Proposed by

User:GingerGeek whilst chatting with: User:eptalon (who suggested putting it on here).

Alternative names

WikiNouns WikiGenealogy Genealogy NameWiki


Domain names

Some of these are parked annoyingly: http://wikinames.org http://wikinouns.org http://namewiki.org http://names.wikimedia.org (if multilingual)



People interested

  1. GingerGeek (talk)
  2. Vogone talk
  3. Conny (talk)
    Nick1372 (talk) No longer interested.
  4. Miguel2706 (talk)
  5. Ecce Ralgis (háblame)
  6. Meclee (talk) 14:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Nice idea. It could also serve as a community-curated version of listofnames.info :) --Waldir (talk) 02:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) I'd say it could be a great new project

Oppose

  1. Oppose A wholly unnecessary to the already bloated Wikimedia family. This will be less active than wikinews within a week of its opening. Retrolord (talk) 03:20, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Great idea for WikiData The WikiData project provides the infrastructure to collect these kinds of structured datasets. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 18:39, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    The problem with that is that WikiData is a mostly internally-used project, and is not very friendly to the general population of people who aren't users of a Wikimedia project. Having a seperate project for it would help get more people interested in it. Nick1372 (talk) 05:03, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. This can all be completely implemented in Wikipedia and Wiktionary with the help of Wikidata. --MF-W 16:42, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Oppose - low-priority, as well as being a field where the level of sourcing and of popular "knowledge" is dangerously unreliable.
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