Mike, the "soft" part of the launch is that it is available only in
English, has not been heavily promoted and every link and reference
elsewhere has not been transitioned. This info was in Gregory's initial
post about the soft launch on the 1st.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 9:50 PM Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:

> Huh? it’s already been live at https://wikimediafoundation.org/ for the
> last week or so - that’s not a “soft launch”, that’s a full launch (maybe
> without the trimmings).
>
> Should I repost the comments/bug reports I sent to wmfcc-l last week more
> publicly?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 10 Aug 2018, at 22:34, Gregory Varnum <gvar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you to everyone that has sent in productive feedback and bug
> reports! In the interest of having this conversation more transparently and
> succinctly, we have answered a number of questions on the talk page of the
> Meta-Wiki page for this site:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_website
> >
> > We will continue to monitor feedback, address bugs during soft launch,
> and let you know when the translations are in place and we are ready for
> the full launch of the site.
> >
> > Again, thank you all for your patience during the soft launch of this
> site.
> >
> > -greg
> >
> > -------
> > Gregory Varnum
> > Communications Strategist
> > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> > gvar...@wikimedia.org
> > Pronouns: He/Him/His
> >
> >> On Aug 8, 2018, at 8:28 AM, attolippip <attolip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It also does not seem to work correctly on mobile (android):
> >>
> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMFnewsiteonandroidmobile.png
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> antanana
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 17:47 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 8 August 2018 at 15:23, Shabab Mustafa <shabab.must...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I had to turn off my anti-tracking extension to see this site
> properly.
> >>>
> >>> This is how it appears for me, in Firefox (current version) with
> >>> AdBlockPlus enabled:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_-_2018-08-08_-_Wikimedia_Foundation_blog.png
> >>>
> >>> AdBlockPlus is reportedly active on 100 million devices.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Andy Mabbett
> >>> @pigsonthewing
> >>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> >>>
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