It's has been awhile since I last posted an idea and winning the Trap 17 Mad Scientist award I feel I must post! Anyways here is an idea and I'll post the good and the bad about it.

I'm not sure what it would be called and wiki is used WAY to much, but for now we will call it WikiBio. WikiBio is a site to post your bio and update it. I am not talking about a quick bio like on Friendster and Myspace. A full blown out bio. You write about youself all the way everything you know even your social security number, ok the social part was a joke, but seriously, it's just a place to post a bio on yourself. It's a wiki site for the reason that your friends can add things about you. Past experiences you might have forgot about. Only friends can do this like comments almost in myspace. The layout wouldn't look as nasty as myspace does and sort of like wikipedia, but I want people to go there and know its WikiBio not Wikipedia. Like i said before, i dont want Wiki in the name!

So what are benefits of this site? Why would you put personal info down? Think about the future and history. We all wont become famous and we all wont do something that will make the news That's why there would be WikiBio. If your detailed enough you could have a nice bio page and pictures. Friends post things about you so you never forget them. Now think, if it lasted, 100 yeas from now. What was great grandpa/grandma like? Or how about a simple historian looking up statisics like, how many people in Washington state were Christian etc. The search you could look up "Fireman in washington" and maybe find a co-worker you had and learn about them later on. Maybe a friend who moved away and found them on there and see how they are doing. There would be a messaging section, but that's not what it's for. You simply read. I know personaly I would find it interesting to look at people bios and read about them in depth. No matter how small we all have interesting lives in some way. Obviously you wouldnt put anything incriminating down and I bet no politicians would put stuff down.

So what do you guys think about this? What name? What would it look like? Would anyone want to help me make it? Would you ever use it?

I would use this site. It would be good to keep track of what I've done and be able to look back on it. Let's develop it. I have tons of experience with PHP and mySQL and programming in general.

Okay, now this is one idea in a long time I really think is great! And I am really in for this idea. The name WikiBio doesn't sound good to me atleast... But you are using the Wiki system to develop this, aren't you? Then I guess we should add Wiki to it.

I am surely going to use it if you or anyone else makes something like this. WikiPeople will do? I know it's equally lame but that's all I can think of for now. Commenting and all and having a photo journal would even help.

I can just imagine what if we had time-lines there and we suffer an invasion of emo kids like MySpace did... That would be such pathetic, their stupidity is okay but even the faux-sadness makes me sad. Comments/testimonials would be pretty good idea 'cause then we don't have to sound so self-obsessed and self-praising. I always wanted something about me on Wiki, and now with this everyone can have one.

Or if you guys are making it from scratch, I don't know how Wiki-based sites are made, but I can surely lend some help with CSS and Minimalistic Graphics, I know this ain't much, but still atleast work will be distributed.

If you need any help with this ever, and it's within whatever I can do, I will surely do it.

Man, It sounds like a great idea but will it work? It is a direction in which social networking seems to be headed. Since lot of blogs actually are really autobiographies, this may be the place where they all converge. Sounds great but we have to make it work. With the Wiki format, I think it would be a great mimimalistic version. Keep up the good work dude.

I think this is a really great idea. I mean people can leave out as much info as they like for security issues and if you don't like the idea of your information out their for everyone, then just don't make an account. It will be up to you what information you want on there. The only problem I can think of at the moment is what if someone creates a page for someone else? I don't want someone making a fake page about my life and then posing as a real one. There would have to be a way to validate it of some sort because people can make anyone they want a myspace with just a picture of them and fake information. It's still a good idea though and I think you should start something or gather people and start something. It'd be neat to look up people of the past or be able to group people together into families and see who you are related to distantly.

WikiMe? WikiFriends? This is an amazing idea. I want to sign up as soon as it's created. It's brilliant.

There are many sites like this already, so it's definitely not a new idea. But I know many people don't join sites like this because of how bad identity theft is and because people are always paranoid about giving their information online (and for good reason).

I can't remember of those sites that have exactly as you say (though I ran across some on Stumble Upon the other day) but I know a wiki+blog+profile is Mindsay.com and it is pretty good.

Sounds a interesting idea, but to me it just sounds like a combination of blog, myspace, and wiki software and like Smack mention in his above post, Identity theft and cyber stalking is such a big deal these days not to many people would want to do put up there personal lives for everyone to read and know about.. Also with the fact your introducing wiki software into this, that would mean your bio would be editable and thus people will have the chance to delete everything or post up some bad stuff, especially when its people who loath you or treating you like junk. Interesting idea but again why go through the effort when you can just combine a blog and mypace profile together and display it on a web page.