Gregory Varnum wrote:
After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this week!
You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your browser's cache): https://wikimediafoundation.org/
The English home page inexplicably has German text at the top. I'm super-confused how nobody has noticed or fixed this yet, given how prominent it is on the page. It's also now been there long enough that Google search results are including it. Woof.
It's very sad that the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. communications department unilaterally decided to move away from MediaWiki to WordPress. And in the process, your team made the site a lot less accessible to edits and changes. Many people, including employees of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and volunteers, repeatedly raised objections to this decision to move to WordPress and they were ignored. I think this type of behavior by the communications department is really inappropriate, unbecoming, and inconsistent with Wikimedia's values.
I also agree with Yair Rand that the focus on "Advocacy" is misplaced.
MZMcBride