[Foundation-l] New Project Process

[Lodewijk]

I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship
project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating
new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create
new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year
:)

Best,
Lodewijk

No dia 4 de Abril de 2012 05:53, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>escreveu:

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein <sjklein at hcs.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We had started a stub table about this:
> >>>
> https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
> >>
> >> This is brilliant! I've been after something like this for a while.
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, Nemo.  I was looking for this on Meta, but
> > forgot to check the stratwiki.
> > Embarrassing, since apparently I started the page... :) Liam: another
> > reason to consider merging meta wikis.
> >
> > Ziko:
> >> what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we
> shut down such
> >> a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest
> money in promoting it?
> >
> > Good questions, subtle answers.  Those are not the only options; we
> > might help them merge with a similar project.  For instance,
> > wikieducator and wikiversity have almost identical missions, and might
> > benefit from being merged; the question of 'who hosts the site' is
> > relatively minor compared to the loss of splitting energy and focus
> > across two wikis.
> >
> > Liam (paraphrased):
> >> - "project review" : identify support each project expects from the WMF.
> >> - "easy improvements with high value". Start with Wiktionary
> >> - rename Commons to "WikiCommons"? merge WikiSpecies w/ WikiData?
> >> - merge Outreach, Strategy and MetaWiki --> wikimedia.org
> >> - lower barriers b/t wikis: global userpages, talk, watchlists
> >
> > This whole class of brainstorming is important; making it less of a
> > pain to travel between projects is good for all of them.
> >
> > Yaroslav:
> >> may be we could use the experience of langcom and appoint ten
> individuals
> >> who would recommend new proposals to the Board.
> >
> > That's not a bad idea.
> >
> > SJ
>
> Indeed, perhaps a 'Sister Projects Committee' could start looking into
> some of Liam's type of questions.
>
> (Of course, Wikipedia is a "sister project" too!)
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
> (User:Pharos)
>
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