[WikiEN-l] "About Wikipedia" in navigation sidebar

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 2/8/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sandra (the Foundation communications person) suggested an "About
> Wikipedia" link go in the sidebar, not just at the bottom of each
> page. So I floated it on [[MediaWiki Talk:Sidebar]], got no objections
> and put it in today. This is to be the sort of "about" link lots of
> websites have.
>
> The link goes to [[Wikipedia:About]]. I ask the august embattled
> wikiveterans of this list to hack at said page until it's actually the
> sort of thing a completely fresh visitor would expect to see linked
> from "About Wikipedia." At the moment it strikes me as about twice as
> long as it should be and entirely peppered in caveats ... thoughts
> plz.
>
>
> - d.
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I'd rather ask people to settle on a final version on meta, so we can
translate it consistently accros projects. Otherwise en: will endup
having a version different from what other wikipedias have.

This is the sort of things that should have the same information
across languages