Hello,
The future wikimedia website may be found here :
http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Home
For it to become truely our site, it needs input from
editors. You may find here
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_website)
some ideas about we would like it to become and why.
You are welcome to help adding content in it. For
this, you need to ask for an account. Please do so to
Angela or I.
Mostly, to be functionnal, the website needs technical
help. An irc occured a while ago on the topic. The
link is here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation_website_meeting%2C_July_2004
In this discussion, it was concluded that there were a
bunch of things to fix, such as html handling,
different skin for loggued-in users and non loggued-in
users, languages...
The current situation in any cases is that
* We cannot host the fundraising page
* We cannot easily handle multilingualism
The first point makes it impossible for the website to
just exist.
The second is just a knife cut in our attempt to make
this site multilingue.
Is there anyone interested to help about this ?
If yes, when and for what ?
Is there any hope that anything is done in the next 6
months ?
I am ready to participate to the content, but since I
would prefer to write in french and am basically the
only one participating on it, is it a problem that the
foundation website is in french ?
Also, is it okay to everyone that I change the current
fundraising page ? There is outdated information on
it, and I would like that translations are included as
well.
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Hello
I made a proposal for how we could handle this tricky
issue on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_payment.
I invite you to read it and to comment if you wish :-)
My belief is that it is a decent compromise between
all the wishes expressed (well, at least I hope).
I remind you that this is a trial, not a permanent
decision.
The plain idea is
* that the opportunity is taken to clean up and
organise better a couple of pages (such as
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Development_tasks)
* to avoid bureaucracy.
**If an editor or the foundation wishes for a task to
be done, just ask
**If a developer is ready to take care of a matter,
just mentions it on development task. If he would be
interested by getting in contract, please mentions it
on [[development payment proposal]] (or any title you
think best)
*to always ensure that this task is welcome by the
entire community (please discuss it before on mailing
lists or meta)
*to ensure that this task makes consensus amongst the
developers (hence the involvment of the developer
committee - no task will be paid for, which will go
against the general direction set by the developers,
or is technically nonsensical)
*to ensure that this task is interesting the
foundation (hence, the decision to pay or not for a
task will be made by the board)
Refining the proposal is welcome. Otherwise,
basically, this is in your hands now. The basic
structure is there, use it or do not use it :-)
ant
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Oh, I forgot...
I remember a mail was sent to the owner of
wikimedia.com.
What are the news on that topic ?
for information
We chose to have the site at WikimediaFoundation
rather than the easier Wikimedia, for the simple
reason that we do not own wikimedia.com.
Ant
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I am a student from the Tecnical University Federico Santa Maria of
Chile, i am preparing a proyect for creating an encyclopedia of Chile
with mediawiki,
We plan to create a meta-site named www.chilef.cl (or
chilef.mediawiki.org if you like) wich coordinate de effort for
creating this large scale proyect.
we really whant to create a "evangelization process" for this, with a
litle help of e-mails, contacts in chilean universities (we have) and
chain reaction messages through people we know.
also we want to administer links with es.wikipedia.com for some content.
we think that a strong net of contacts will make all the force needed
by this proyect and want to share it whit you.