[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation

[GerardM]

Hoi,
It is one thing to highlight contributions of our sponsors (and it is a good
thing to give them facetime) there are also our partners that deserve some
presence. I missed Kennisnet, I missed Yahoo. Google is as willing to do our
hosting.... Maybe there are other organisations that help us continually..
Thanks,
GerardM

On 10/17/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> So...
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> I have worked a bit in the past 2 weeks in refactoring the Foundation Home
> Page, to merge it with Quarto.
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> PLEASE, do not consider the graphical aspect of it, it can LOOK different.
> I am very bad at graphics, so do not take this as the final look.
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> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Anthere/home
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> What I would like to have feedback on is
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> * the content of the new page
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> * the way information is organised
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> * adding logos of sponsors or not (depending on how much they gave or how
> recently it was...)
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> * etc...
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> The main idea is to merge Quarto in the Foundation site, in such a way
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> * most big categories are kept (so, it is not too difficult to "create" a
> pdf Quarto from the content from time to time if we have the will and
> energy...)
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> * topics normally edited by board members or officers will be directly
> editable on the website. Each officer will for example have a report page
> associated and this one will always be the same.
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> For example : for the hardware officer :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Hardware_and_hosting_report
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> I kept Jimbo's letter (and whatever big messages he wishes to share with
> the community), while the board letter may contain a overview of WMF over
> time (organisation, collaborations etc...)
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> Each officer will have his own report page, which he can edit alone or
> with anyone he wishes (some links might be missing right now; I mostly want
> to give the idea)
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> * topics which can be created/offered by anyone will be created on meta.
> So fully editable. They will be later copied on the Foundation site or not.
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> For example, by Alterego (copied on the WMF site) :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Projects/An_exciting_growth_%21
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> We can also include here all Specials, which might be report on Wikimania
> (no one feels like doing it it seems though) or Interviews etc...
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> I would love to see there stuff like [[How to use and reuse our content]]
> or [[All you ever wanted to know on our licences...]]
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> * A controversial point to validate : I would like that we introduce a
> "opinion area" or a "essay area" for personal texts of some of our
> proeminent members. These will be clearly labelled "not Foundation
> approved"... but naturally, we'll not let crazy text settle here :-)
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> * I left a prize and award which might be nicely featured in a special
> area with what often goes with it.... a picture of the prize... Currently,
> it is just a paragraph to suggest it should be here
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> * The road ahead will be mostly to announce major events (such as
> Wikimania, or WSIS ?) and planning.
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> * Controversially, I added a special area for donations and sponsorship...
> with some logos....
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> * And I finished with a little bit of corporate details, which might
> certainly be improved.
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> The right side is still allocated with current news...
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> When you go down in reports, you'll notice a [[archive]] link, which allow
> to go back in the past. See for example :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report
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> As well as put some atemporal links (such as the link to the budget).
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> All reports might be categorized to better find them back as well.
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> Of course, all officers will be free to fill these quartely reports in the
> way that seems best to them. Imho, in most cases, a global report per
> quarter is best, but in some cases, adding information little by little when
> new stuff get done might be good as well.
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> I mostly wish/hope that information gets there...
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> Of course, most content is right now outdated. This is mostly to show what
> it could be. So do not complain about that please :-)
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> Now, I would love some feedback on all this. If no one says anything (as
> most of the time :-(...), I'll consider it an agreed and will put it on the
> main page soon (likely next week end).
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> Otherwise, please comment here, or on irc, or on the talk page if you can
> or wherever...
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> Thanks
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> Ant
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