Assuming that the most recent rough timeline I've got is still accurate, Wikidata will have deployed Phase II of its features by, at the latest, early January. I'd prefer that we wait at least a week or two after that for the project to re-stabilize before we make the big announcement, as I do not want to have people coming in right as we're working out the bugs from the Phase II deployment. That would mean, ballpark, that I'd be most comfortable with us doing this early February. That is in the timeline you gave. I would also like to stress the importance of the WMF communicating with these two mailing lists and giving us at least a 48 hour warning before the banners go live. I want to make sure that the local admins (and everyone else) knows that we're going to potentially get a large wave of new users. Call me a cynic, but considering how drama-free and smooth Wikidata has been, I've kinda been waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm not saying that the people there now would be hostile to the people that might be joining after the announcement, but I am saying that having people on hand in case there is trouble is going to be important. Okay, so yes, I am truly a cynic of epic proportions. On a more positive note, it would also give me time to make sure that all of the project's help pages are cleaned up and that we have a nice centralized location that lists said pages where we can point the new people to. Thanks for the idea, Sven On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi, 2012/12/6 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: Great idea, but isn't it a bit premature for Wikidata? Right now we only have interwiki links (and an awesome community :) ), which I fear isn't enough for newcomers to understand how critical this new project is. Once phase 2 is live, however, this would make sense without any doubt. Best regards, -- Jérémie

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Hey :) As others have already said this seems good but too early for Wikidata. I would wait with this until at least February (probably even later) to give the community time to settle a bit and grow before the huge storm. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.