I created a page about country portals a while ago (things like wikipedia.de), with the intention of asking people to take a look at it, make sure everything was right, and expand it... but I never got around to it and here I am now. ;-)
The page is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Country_portals and I'd appreciate it if you made sure that your local portal is on there. If you know anything about portals, please add to the page. :-)
On 17 June 2010 22:39, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
country portals a while ago (things like wikipedia.de)
Oh, I didn't know they existed. Not a bad idea at all! Are they all hosted externally or by the WMF?
AGK
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, AGK wikiagk@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, I didn't know they existed. Not a bad idea at all! Are they all hosted externally or by the WMF?
I think they're all hosted externally (usually by chapters), but the point of the page is to find out things like that and write them down. :-)
Casey Brown hett schreven:
I created a page about country portals a while ago (things like wikipedia.de), with the intention of asking people to take a look at it, make sure everything was right, and expand it... but I never got around to it and here I am now. ;-)
The page is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Country_portals and I'd appreciate it if you made sure that your local portal is on there. If you know anything about portals, please add to the page. :-)
In an edit comment editing http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Country_portals User:Nemo_bis asked ''do we really want random people to create such portals?''
I agree that the portals shouldn't be created by random people. They also shouldn't be created by chapters. They should be created by the Foundation. The Foundation should create a uniform portal for all ccTLDs. The design should be uniform, each domain should provide access to the Wikipedias in all languages autochthonously spoken in the respective country. And the portals should be fully localizable using Translatewiki translations.
And ideally the same would be done for our other projects.
I don't think it is acceptable, that domains are monolingual or offer access to one project only or even redirect to a single project when the country the ccTLD refers to has in fact many languages. Some domains are unregistered or registered by thirds, sometimes redirecting to a single project, sometimes redirecting to non-Wikimedia-related sites.
Marcus Buck User:Slomox
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