Hi all, The Wikimedia India portal has been up and running for a while now. I request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues: 1. Wikimedia India wiki: The Main Page of the wiki (wiki.wikimedia.in) requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit. 2. Wikimedia India landing page: The wikimedia.in domain lands at a static page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped us with this as well. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Thanks much for the offer of help, Beria. Really appreciate that. Personally, I would agree with the sentiment that a single website serves the purpose. We can simply lock some pages to make them static, the rest can work like a wiki. Are there more suggestions on this issue? Should we have two websites (one static, based on wordpress or drupal and the other a wiki) or should one (wiki) serve the purpose best? Beria, at this point of time, I would say that anything is better than the plain pages we have now. We require some standardization too, so that we can organize information better (through categories). I think the Wikimedia Hong Kong page (wikimedia.hk) looks great. Are there more examples? Maybe we need some out-of-the-box thinking to create something new. (-: anirudh On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com> wrote: say what do you want (as if: "I would like if the main page was like WM XX wiki main page") wiki.wikimedia.in separated. but I would do the oposite (ie: redirect wiki.wikimedia.in to wikimedia.in but with the actual content - like in wikimedia.de and wikimedia.pt. A diferent portal would only be useful if was like wikimedia.fr one (in their case the wiki is almost not used at all). Because if a chapter would give good use to that would be you (with the thousand languages in India). You could do something like in wikipedia.fr (WMPT has the code, we are updating to place in our wikipedia.pt (now a redirect to pt.wikipedia.org). shouldn't please say so and i will leave. livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. it redirect to the wiki itself and add a section for blog/news on wiki. It would seem like there would be a lot of redundancy between the two, and it would only require more work to update both separately. installations. I can help with the wiki itself and better organize it. wrote: I request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues: wiki.wikimedia.in) requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit. static page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped us with this as well. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l