On 9/26/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
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.
I think the best way forward, as per the discussion, is to first launch a larger effort to improve the WMF site. We can then add a sidebar to e.g. en.wp and see what the effects are; if we consider it useful, we can add it to all wikis by Board resolution or Executive decree, or leave it up to the communities to implement it.
Re: the WMF site, probably the easiest is to identify a set of pages that we'd want in such a sidebar, then have an open editing & translation period on Meta for these pages + copy the result pages to WMF wiki. Thinking about the best way to do this, will follow up.