Another reason for doing this, is to cover people who are actually looking for the official blog (please note that many volunteers also write at blog.wikimedia.org), but who simply confuse wikimedia and wikipedia - not entirely uncommon. blog.wikimedia.org is the closest this there is for the official wikipedia-blog and until there is a separate, official, wikipedia blog, i would be in favor for redirecting this url.
I don't see how this would go at the expense of other blogs. indeed many cross-project pages such as meta.wikipedia.org redirect to the right page, because it is clear what people were aiming for when they typed the url.
Best, Lodewijk
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
Amir,
My initial, gut reaction to your suggestion was positive. I like that you have thought of a way to make blog content more accessible to the public.
However, on reflection:
- The Planet Wikimedia blog predates the Wikimedia Foundation's blog by
some years, and is well populated by a variety of people blogging about Wikipedia and the other projects.
- I run a blog that's almost entirely dedicated to Wikipedia, as do many
other individuals (off the top of my head, Gerard Meijssen is one, Erik Zachte, etc.)
- Many affliliated organizations (such as the Wiki Education Foundation,
Wiki Med Foundation, and various chapters) have their own Wikipedia-oriented blogs as well.
I believe (as others have said) the primary result of your proposal is that it would make the official Wikimedia blog more discoverable; but that increase would come at the expense of community-driven efforts. On that basis, I can't support it. I think the results people get typing queries like "Wikipedia blog" into search engines are adequate. The Wikimedia blog already has the top (blog) spot on that specific query. I don't see any compelling reason to further increase its SEO performance at the expense of other Wikipedia-oriented blogs.
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