Okay... I noticed the addition of "About Wikipedia" in the sidebar and discussion at [[MediaWiki_talk:Sidebar#Wikipedia:About]], before seeing this thread on the mailing list.
I'm of the opinion that the [[Wikipedia:About]] page needs to be most helpful as can be in answering questions people often have about Wikipedia. This is especially true, since it is linked more prominently. With that in mind, I have boldly gone through the page to do copyedits and reorder sections, as needed. I may come back later, after giving more about the most commonly asked questions and issues are, and see that those are addressed properly in the "About" page.
Your suggestions and feedback would be most helpful, or please go in and improve the page yourself if you wish. I don't mind taking the page to meta and working on a common version.
-Aude
On 2/8/07, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sandra (the Foundation communications person) suggested an "About Wikipedia" link go in the sidebar, not just at the bottom of each page. So I floated it on [[MediaWiki Talk:Sidebar]], got no objections and put it in today. This is to be the sort of "about" link lots of websites have.
The link goes to [[Wikipedia:About]]. I ask the august embattled wikiveterans of this list to hack at said page until it's actually the sort of thing a completely fresh visitor would expect to see linked from "About Wikipedia." At the moment it strikes me as about twice as long as it should be and entirely peppered in caveats ... thoughts plz.
- d.
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I'd rather ask people to settle on a final version on meta, so we can translate it consistently accros projects. Otherwise en: will endup having a version different from what other wikipedias have.
This is the sort of things that should have the same information across languages
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