On 5/8/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking for my involvement with Commons, I want success for Commons on its own terms. Not just as a service project to Wikipedia.
As Wikiquotian, I would love to see Wikiquote offers to quote archive service to Wikipedia as well other our sister projects, but it is not our principal goal in my understanding. We are not mere Wikipedia appendices.
Besides that, since in the modern world "-pedia" is often used for refering something encyclopedia alike, names alike "XXpedia Books" "XXpedia Dictionary" would be confusable. I've seen some people failed to distinguish dictionary from encyclopidia, and vice versa, but I am not sure such ambiguity is helpful for increasing our "recognition" in the long term.
Once rebranded, the projects could also be featured in different ways. For instance, a list of projects could be shown in a navigation bar at the top of every page:
: Other Wikipedia Projects: Sources | Textbooks | Quotes | Dictionary | Media | Species | News | Learning
We don't need to wait for a rebranding to do something very similar to this, do we?
Agreed. And I think it pretty well. is there any good reason not to add such an index in the page "Other Wikimedia projects: ......"?