I think such a website attracts new contributors more easily than mediawiki.org can. Later when it points to MW for most stuff the contributor gets used to it :)
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 04/07/2013 09:23 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Why not doing exactly the same but on mediawiki.org directly? All the effort put on promoting a brand new site could be put instead in promoting mediawiki.org in a new, fresh way.
I think there's a slight misunderstanding.
I don't think so :) but it's fine. No stop energy.
If you see
http://whatcanidoformozilla.**org http://whatcanidoformozilla.org, it doesn't have much *original* content by itself - it just links back to an appropriate page on mozwiki. This one will also be the same - it will just link back to appropriate mediawiki.org pages.
Yes, yes. We could argue about the tactics of creating own sites for each activity as opposed to build on top of your current platform but there is actually little point in doing so.
Please continue with your initiative but document / discuss in your preferred destination under Project:New contributors
This will help us being all in sync
And if the pages are not good enough,
I'll try improve them (or poke people into doing that).
This is the big part of the work. And related to this: improving mediawiki.org homepage and Developer Hub to reflect all the opportunities for contribution you are describing.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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