Update: I now propose a press release distribution date of Wednesday October 1. Hopefully the servers will be upgraded by then. If not we could wait until 3rd or the 6th for the non-English distribution (whatever day is chosen, the English version will follow one week after).
I wrote before:
Things that, IMO, have to be done before we distribute the press release:
needs to be finalized by the community and approved by Jimbo.
It really isn't "finalized" or "approved" but it is done. Thanks Alex!
- Fundraising.html needs to be displayed at
Done. Thanks Brion!
- http://wikiquote.org and http://wikiquote.com need
to be forwarded to http://quote.wikipedia.org
Still waiting for Jason....
- A minimal webpage needs to be created for the
Wikimedia Foundation and displayed at http://wikimediafoundation.org
It's ugly and a bit sad, but it does exist.
(http://wikimedia.org should continue to be a portal to the different Wikimedia projects; the only change that is needed is
a link to the foundation's website).
Things that would be real nice but not absolutely necessary, IMO:
1) Upgrade Pliny (our webserver) and Larousse (our database server). I'm tempted to move this item up... 2) Translated/different language versions of Fundraising.html created. 3) Move Wikibooks to http://wikibooks.org 4) Move Wikiquote to http://wikiquote.org 5) Either revive Nupedia.org (the website) or remove all mention of it from the Wikimedia.org page. We will still have to decide what to do with this comatose project. But not today.
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