tarquin wrote on Wikipedia-l

Please wait until we have our logo decided

The end of the final vote is on the 25th, I'm sure we can have the new logo up by the time the first press releases are distributed on the 29th. If not then we can wait a few days (or even wait two months for the more conservative 300,000 alternate article count. See: http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesArticlesTotalAlt.htm ).

& a clearer page layout!

? Which page? The meta version of the press release is just that; a nice and tidy English version will be created from that and it will be posted on the English Wikipedia. I suggest that every Wikipedia host their version of the press release on their own wiki so as not to confuse people into thinking that meta is a Wikipedia.

Everybody stop writing articles now!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

That's not going to happen unless we implement Nupedia-style editorial controls or pull the plug on the server. ;)

Things that, IMO, have to be done before we distribute the press release:

1) http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/6/68/Fundraising.html needs to be finalized by the community and approved by Jimbo. 2) Fundraising.html needs to be displayed at http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising/ 3) http://wikiquote.org and http://wikiquote.com need to be forwarded to http://quote.wikipedia.org 4) A minimal webpage needs to be created for the Wikimedia Foundation and displayed at http://wikimediafoundation.org (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.

Lower priority (mainly symbolic but still important in the long run, IMO):

1) Move meta to http://meta.wikimedia.org (temp Wikimedia logo needed) 2) Move the mailing lists to http://mail.wikimedia.org 3) Move the database download page to http://download.wikimedia.org 4) Move the test wiki to http://test.wikimedia.org 5) Move the English Wikipedia to http://en.wikipedia.org and create a language selection portal at http://wikipedia.org (I know, way too much work for a week for little real immediate benefit; that's why these items are marked "lower priority").

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

Related links: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%27s_first_press_release http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Fundraising.html

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