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(a)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(a)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(a)wikimedia.org
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