[Foundation-l] Update board meeting report june 2007

[Florence Devouard]

Arne Klempert wrote:
> On 7/5/07, elisabeth bauer <eflebeth at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Just seen in the report:
>> "Next, we discussed what do to with the wikipedia.com portal, and
>> agreed to the concept of setting up a specific portal, where we could
>> explain more about the projects, about the Foundation, welcome
>> services etc... all things to be discussed in length as wikipedians
>> know perfectly to do."
> 
> Is wiki*p*edia.com really the best place to talk about (other)
> project*s* and the Foundation? IMHO wikimedia.org should do that.

Indeed. But here, the issue was what to do with Wiki*p*edia.com
We could also put information about wikiproject, announcement of 
conferences organized by chapters on Wikipedia issues (such as quality, 
or education), print on demand stuff, advertisement, international 
drives for content gathering etc...

>> Who is working on this? Could you point me to the discussions about it
>> (haven't seen them)
> 
> +1

Right now, no discussion. Nobody took the time yet to foster discussion 
and work on this. Which is also what mentionning it in report is meant 
to do.

Actually, I talked with Delphine about it some days ago, and she 
mentionned the future website http://wikipedia.de/
I concluded it was best to wait till this was up. Which is now the case.
And my immediate comment is that this is not really what we should do on 
wikipedia.com.

Here is my suggestion. First organizing a public meeting on irc to 
discuss the issue. Interested people could just informally create a 
small group to work on a draft proposition, in the same way 
www.wikipedia.org was done 2 or 3 years ago.
I think the way wikipedia.org was set was just great.

Elian, I would be very pleased if you volunteered to steer such a group.

Maybe a first proposition could be drafted before Wikimania so that the 
topic can be discussed there ?

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