On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:07 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
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?
These seem like reasonable comments, if expressed in rather hostile terms.
Your actions have resulted in other portals such as
This doesn't seem so reasonable.
Wikipedia.org gets 12 million pageviews a
day. How much does
wiktionary.org get? Maybe a thousandth of that? So it
makes sense that they get different levels of attention.
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. I wonder
how much community involvement and collaboration there is now that your
team has wrongfully seized ownership of this page.
I loosely followed some of the discussion around the switch, and while
there may be legitimate criticisms of it, calling it a "hijacking" and a
"seizure" is absurd and inappropriate.
--
Neil P. Quinn <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neil_P._Quinn-WMF>,
product analyst
Wikimedia Foundation