On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> wrote: > I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship > project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating > new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create > new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year > :)
I had suggested earlier that we might even run this as an annual thing, with a Wikimania-style bidding process for the new sister projects. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) > No dia 4 de Abril de 2012 05:53, Pharos > <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com>escreveu: > >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein <sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> We had started a stub table about this: >> >>> >> https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free >> >> >> >> This is brilliant! I've been after something like this for a while. >> > >> > Thanks for the reminder, Nemo. I was looking for this on Meta, but >> > forgot to check the stratwiki. >> > Embarrassing, since apparently I started the page... :) Liam: another >> > reason to consider merging meta wikis. >> > >> > Ziko: >> >> what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we >> shut down such >> >> a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest >> money in promoting it? >> > >> > Good questions, subtle answers. Those are not the only options; we >> > might help them merge with a similar project. For instance, >> > wikieducator and wikiversity have almost identical missions, and might >> > benefit from being merged; the question of 'who hosts the site' is >> > relatively minor compared to the loss of splitting energy and focus >> > across two wikis. >> > >> > Liam (paraphrased): >> >> - "project review" : identify support each project expects from the WMF. >> >> - "easy improvements with high value". Start with Wiktionary >> >> - rename Commons to "WikiCommons"? merge WikiSpecies w/ WikiData? >> >> - merge Outreach, Strategy and MetaWiki --> wikimedia.org >> >> - lower barriers b/t wikis: global userpages, talk, watchlists >> > >> > This whole class of brainstorming is important; making it less of a >> > pain to travel between projects is good for all of them. >> > >> > Yaroslav: >> >> may be we could use the experience of langcom and appoint ten >> individuals >> >> who would recommend new proposals to the Board. >> > >> > That's not a bad idea. >> > >> > SJ >> >> Indeed, perhaps a 'Sister Projects Committee' could start looking into >> some of Liam's type of questions. >> >> (Of course, Wikipedia is a "sister project" too!) >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> (User:Pharos) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l