On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:53:16 -0400, Alex Hottenstein ahottenstein@gmail.com wrote:
Again, I do not know the protocol here, so who is in charge of determining actual product movements?
In theory, the Wikimedia Board (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees) are, but in practice, it's up to the users interested in a new project to organise it. It depends what you think you need to start off such a project. If you need money, then you would need the board's assistance with this. However, if you simply need a new sub-domain, like mobile.wikipedia.org or whatever, then this can be requested on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_projects assuming there has been little or no objection to it.
The guidelines that exist for starting a new language Wikipedia might help, although won't be completely relevant: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia.
If you are only at the stage where you want to be discussing this new project idea with other interested people, a page on Meta will be the best place to start documenting your proposal. You can advertise the idea to get more people interested at places like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Goings-on.
Talking to some of the developers about this idea might be useful. If you use IRC, drop into #mediawiki on freenode. If not, Tim Starling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling) is Wikimedia's Developer Liaison and should be able to point you in the right direction.
Hope that helps.
Angela.