[Wikipedia-l] [Intlwiki-l] 300,000 draws near...

[Daniel Mayer]

Update: I now propose a press release distribution date of Wednesday October 
1. Hopefully the servers will be upgraded by then. If not we could wait until 
3rd or the 6th for the non-English distribution (whatever day is chosen, the 
English version will follow one week after). 

I wrote before:
>Things that, IMO, have to be done before we distribute
>the press release:
>
>1) http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/6/68/Fundraising.html
>needs to be finalized by the community and approved by
>Jimbo.

It really isn't "finalized" or "approved" but it is done. Thanks Alex!

>2) Fundraising.html needs to be displayed at
>http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising/ 

Done. Thanks Brion! 

>3) http://wikiquote.org and http://wikiquote.com need
>to be forwarded to http://quote.wikipedia.org 

Still waiting for Jason.... 

>4) A minimal webpage needs to be created for the
>Wikimedia Foundation and displayed at
>http://wikimediafoundation.org 

It's ugly and a bit sad, but it does exist. 

>(http://wikimedia.org should continue to be a 
>portal to the different Wikimedia projects; the only change that is needed is
a link to the foundation's website). 

Things that would be real nice but not absolutely
necessary, IMO:

1) Upgrade Pliny (our webserver) and Larousse (our
database server). I'm tempted to move this item up... 
2) Translated/different language versions of
Fundraising.html created.  
3) Move Wikibooks to http://wikibooks.org
4) Move Wikiquote to http://wikiquote.org
5) Either revive Nupedia.org (the website) or remove
all mention of it from the Wikimedia.org page. We will
still have to decide what to do with this comatose
project. But not today.