On 9/26/06, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

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As you may know, MediaWiki:Sidebar supports defining little boxes that contain navigation links. de.wikipedia.org has used this to customize its sidebar, for example.

Should we have a sidebar with the heading "Wikimedia" containing links to wikimediafoundation.org for things like:

• About Wikimedia
• Projects
• Volunteer (info about committees, mailing lists, etc.)
• Jobs (those we chooose to publicly advertise)
• Chapter information

I think is could a good idea to improve Wikimedia visibility. But 5 links are too much imo. If we already have a "Navigation" and a "Community" section, another one with 5 links would relegate the search box far away. Maybe we could add the 2 more relevant links in the "community" section ?

Prehaps below the toolbox would work instead (they are redesigning the toolbar on Wikipedia and if it goes ahead one of the developers (Rob Church I think?) is going to do a ptach for them). Couldn't we just get a modified version of this and stick it below the toolbox like they do on http://www.wikia.com . I like the idea of this and it would definitely improve the visibility of the Wikimedia websites, the wikis that are displayed in the one on Wikia always get loads more attention.