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This is an interesting question but it also made me ponder something related. It makes sense for Wikipedia to focus on only notable people, but why not create a WikePeople or something that aims to be comprehensive about every person we can find information on? Or does something like this exist already?
This is, like, textbook dystopian. Most people value their privacy at least to some extent and probably wouldn't take kindly to being documented in a public central database largely outside of their control.
True I guess maybe it should be opt in although honestly I think online privacy isn’t going to be all that possible going forward. Depends on how strict the government wants to be but it’s pretty hard to control.
Facebook and LinkedIn sort of do this and they are complete shitshows.
Right but I was thinking with a similar rigor and citation system as with Wikipedia. So it’s pretty different in practice.
I see what you mean, I think. It would be convenient to be able to look people up in a modern equivalent of "Who's Who" in a central location, instead of trying to find people scattered all over the web. However, I wouldn't want to be on there myself, and would worry employers would make it mandatory. Some employers already reject candidates for having no social media.
A valid concern. I was more thinking it would be interesting if to have a comprehensive biographical database for people who have died. That way they won’t be forgotten as most people of the past have been. But I’m not sure how to create that without violating the privacy of the living.
With genealogy. But living people are [hidden].
It'll be the next ancestry.com !
Who's who