[Foundation-l] Merge wikis

[Ziko van Dijk]

Hi Nemo,
you are not very specific - the discussion on Strategory you are
linking to contains a lot of good reasons provided by Dedalus. Indeed,
if you talk to the press, or to media experts, they all know
"Wikipedia" but not "Wikimedia". The most simple and reasonable way is
to use the famous brand, not to invest in "Wikimedia".

With regard to the sister projects, I feel a lot of vigorous emotions
but no arguments.
Ziko


2011/7/2 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>:
> There are much more "meta-wikis" that could be merged:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_wikis#Organizational_and_planning_projects>
>
> Ziko van Dijk, 02/07/2011 00:14:
>> But in those sister projects communities, I have met fierce resistance
>> to any new branding or technical rearrangement. They even tend to
>> avoid to associate themselves with Wikipedia. They want to grow on
>> their own appeal and strengh. (They also are annoyed when Wikipedians
>> come to a sister project and don't learn immediately that the rules
>> differ.)
>
> And with good reason.
> See also
> <http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Brand_name_consolidation>
> (this is a perennial proposal).
>
> Nemo
>
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