Bonsoir, On 9/26/06, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: I think is could a good idea to improve Wikimedia visibility. But 5 links are too much imo. If we already have a "Navigation" and a "Community" section, another one with 5 links would relegate the search box far away. Maybe we could add the 2 more relevant links in the "community" section ? g. -- Guillaume Paumier Disciplus Simplex http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.

Erik Moeller wrote: This is a very interesting idea, and on the surface I don't have any strong objection, other than trying to figure out how you are going to reasonably implement this sidebar onto each and every project. I've been involved with modifying the sidebar for en.wikibooks and en.wikiversity, so I do have a little experience with both doing the actual changes as well as trying to deal with gaining a concensus from a larger community over what sorts of things ought to go into modifications of this nature. Generally speaking, as long as the links prove to be of substantial value and are maintained, the community reaction to these changes has been rather positive and supportive. I would also strongly recommend that any general "Wikimedia" sidebar changes ought to be at the very bottom of any other sidebar items for a particular project. A major concern about doing this is that you had better make sure that in this situation, especially since these links will be on practically each and every web page served up with Wikimedia servers, that the web pages linked in this manner are very nearly "professional" quality and have people who are willing to keep them fresh and updated regularly. There is nothing worse than a highly advertised link of this nature that goes to what is essentially just a stub or something that is horribly out of date. Both of those have been criticisms of much of what is found on http://wikimediafoundation.org The other major issue I see is dealing with the multi-lingual issues that are going to inevitably rear their head for this as well. **IF** there are related pages in the same language as the wikimedia project that has this sidebar section being added, it would be reasonable to include the link. Otherwise, I would strongly recommend that you simply remove the link altogether and for most languages link only to the "About Wikimedia" page. Do not link to the English language version of the page as the "default" setting. Of course this is just a recommendation. -- Robert Scott Horning

I think this is a reasonable idea. But I would definately like to see fully fleshed out versions of the pages this would link to before giving a definate opinion. And let's try and remember all the advice from the translators when delveloping these pages as they will need to be heavily translated. Birgitte SB Birgitte SB --- Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com