On 2/9/07, David Strauss <david(a)fourkitchens.com> wrote:
I don't understand why Wikimania should have a new
site every year. We
could be using categories or subpages to organize the annual content.
Samuel Klein wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Aphaia wrote:
>
>> Thank you Phoebe, for your note.
>> On 2/9/07, phoebe ayers <brassratgirl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just a quick note -- there was a little spate of vandalism on the
>>> wikimania2006 site (
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org) last week. I
>>> think it's all cleaned up now, but this is just a reminder that this
>>> is still an open wiki
>> We are better to close/freeze it and archive it? Also [[Wmania:]] can
>> be changed to the current site, not the 2006 one? Or it may cause
>> confusion?
>
> Let's make a Wikimania07: so there's no future confusion...
> those links should not suddenly break in the future b/c the interwiki
> list is changed.
>
> Perhaps limit archived sites to existing users when they drop below a few
> edits a week, with a simple "request an account" link for anyone who
wants
> a new account...
It is high time to redirect
Wikimania.wikimedia.org to
wikimania2007.wikimedia.org. People need to start planning their
submissions and journeys to the conference this summer! Er, Brion....?
:)
As for archiving/freezing the 2006 site -- I wouldn't complain; there
was another rash of autofellatio images today (linked from commons, no
less). There's still work that could be done on the proceedings; but
preventing new usernames from registering, with a request button for
new accounts as Sj suggests, would help quite a bit on the vandalism
front. Can this be done?
As for separate sites -- it makes a nice clean division between each
year's conference. Even if it's a good idea to have one site, though,
I'm not volunteering to merge the three conference sites together at
this point :)
-- phoebe