Deborah Tankersley wrote:
The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the Wikipedia.org page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wiki projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org [...]
Hi Deb,
The descriptive texts don't seem great. Some are inconsistent and at least one is potentially misleading. Some notes:
* "Free Dictionary" instead of "Free dictionary" for Wiktionary. * Starting with "Free" for eight of the projects, but then using a different pattern for the others (e.g., "The free library"). * Meta-Wiki is "Our community site"? Huh? What does that suggest about the other projects? Are they not community sites? * The descriptive texts are only available in English.
The Wikimedia (Foundation) logo is bizarrely in black and white. Why?
It's frustrating and annoying that your happy team hijacked this portal, and only this portal, from the Meta-Wiki community that maintained it for many years. Your actions have resulted in other portals such as www.wiktionary.org falling out of sync with www.wikipedia.org. I wonder how much community involvement and collaboration there is now that your team has wrongfully seized ownership of this page.
MZMcBride