[Foundation-l] Re: a crazy idea...

Paweł Dembowski fallout at lexx.eu.org
Wed Sep 7 19:28:02 UTC 2005


Anthere napisału:

> Dan Grey wrote:

>> On 30/08/05, Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>When I thought about some of the latest discussions on the list and
>>>meta-wiki here, I had a little crazy idea.
>>>
>>>The Wikimedia Foundation website was created a few months ago because we
>>>wanted something clean and clear to present to outside visitors. People
>>>shouldn't have to dive in the mess on meta-wiki for getting information
>>>about Wikimedia.
>>>
>>>However, this plan didn't work out in my opinion. WMF wiki isn't
>>>regularly updated, people aren't sure what should be on meta and what on
>>>wmf, content is duplicated on meta-wiki, translations have to be
>>>regularly moved from meta to the wmf wiki and so on.
>>>
>>>In my opinion, there are three options:
>>>* we can continue like this and try to make the best out of it
>>>* we can drastically reduce the number of pages on WMF, limit the
>>>translations and make it a very simple information site (similar to what
>>>was done on http://www.wikimedia.de, the german associations site)
>>>* or we can reunify meta-wiki and the WMF wiki under
>>>http://www.wikimedia.org
>>>
>>>Before some of you call now "impossible", I'd like you to think about
>>>it. We've managed to build an encyclopedia which is visited by thousands
> I have not been able to make up my mind. So I wait for feedback :-)
> ant

I fully support elian's idea.

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