I would really like to move the fundraising page to the new foundation wiki, but I can't until that wiki can support (at least) forms. Also, since there are many ideas about how to improve that page that involve other parts of HTML that we do no allow (for security reasons) by default, I think it would be best to allow full HTML.
In short, this http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising , needs to look a lot more like http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising soon.
Allowing full HTML will also make it possible for other language versions of that page (which have already been written) to go live.
Also, could somebody move the whole wiki to wikimediafoundation.org? It was a bad mistake to place it at the wikimedia.org domain name since; 1) we do not own the .com and many people naively put .com at the end of every domain name. 2) it can be easily confused with wikipedia.org.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:20:51 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I would really like to move the fundraising page to the new foundation wiki...
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Allowing full HTML will also make it possible for other language versions of that page (which have already been written) to go live.
It's not yet clear there will even be a separate wiki. Other than allowing for HTML, which can be done on Meta, as is the case with the current fundraising page, what do people see as the advantages of separating the site to a place which will have even less visitors than Meta currently has?
Other points that need to be decided before the new site is launched is whether certain pages (such as the budget or the bylaws) will need to be marked as official in some way, and whether or not translations of those ought to be clearly marked as non-official. The permissions of who can edit will need to be decided, particularly if the separate wiki is used. The one in place at the moment only lets sysops create user accounts and it is far from clear whether this is an acceptable solution.
One problem with using HTML is that you could argue it is unwiki and will prevent those who don't know it from editing there. Using wikitext is an easier option, but does lead to a less pretty looking site. Do people see this as an issue or not? If full HTML is going to be enabled, the motivation for restricting editing access increases for security reasons.
Also, could somebody move the whole wiki to wikimediafoundation.org?
Whether it comes from a separate wiki or via Meta, it will be at wikimediafoundation.org. Wikimedia.org will redirect there.
Angela
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