I like it. I do feel the Wikimedia foundation is diverging from it's previous role as custodian of Wikipedia, and becoming a international advocacy group. I feel this change is welcome and will help develop the Creative Commons mission beyond just Wikipedia and it's sister sites.
I take it the design of the site is CC-BY-SA-4.0, this is nice since it allows others to copy the design.
Overall it's an improvement from the previous site.
Warm Regards
Jeremy Lee-Jenkins
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
Wow. Really impressive, modern and colorful. The type look quite bold and the overall flow is pleasant. The theme somehow felt a bit like Mozilla sites as well (in a good way). Congratulations comms. <3
Subhashish
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Gregory Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this week!
You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your browser's cache): https://wikimediafoundation.org/
So what comes next?
Throughout this week, the Communications department and core website team will be doing final tweaks and quality assurance testing in preparations for translations.
Over the coming weeks we will be working with affiliates and contributors around the world to make the site in available in Arabic, Chinese,
French,
German, Russian, and Spanish - in addition to the English version soft launched today. Once the translations are completed, we will be doing a more public announcement regarding the new website and begin more
formally
implementing usage of it.
Additionally, we will be holding office hours in the coming weeks.
What about the old website?
The old website (aka Foundation Wiki) will be given new life in the
coming
weeks as the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki - where it will
continue
to house important documentation for the Wikimedia Foundation like policies, board resolutions and minutes, legal documents, etc. Additional information on the changes coming to that wiki and the plans for
migrating
archived content to Meta-Wiki will be available in the coming weeks.
What else should I know?
There is a lot of great things about this new website we are excited to share with all of you! More information about office hours will available in the coming weeks. Until then, we encourage you to take a look and contact me directly if you find any bugs, typos, or have any comments.
Thank you!
The Communications department greatly appreciates all of the discussions, work, and patience everyone has put into this gigantic undertaking. We
are
very close to the finish line, and today marks a significant step which
was
only possible with the help of the 100+ people involved.
On behalf of the Communications department and core website team
(Heather,
Zack, Katherine, Mel, and Greg),
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist Wikimedia Foundation gvarnum@wikimedia.org Pronouns: He/Him/His
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