okey dokey, so following a bit of a play I'd propose to replace the current front page with this one;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Privatemusings/play I'll probably 'be bold' before too long - and obviously I think there's heaps that could be improved - but maybe a bit of a fresh start might be a good thing? thoughts most welcome... :-) cheers, Peter, PM. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM, private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com>wrote: > G'day all, > > I've just been browsing a bit around our website ( > http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia ) - and wondered if > perhaps we might be able to generally aim a little higher / improve it a > bit. > > For whatever reasons (and perhaps general Chapter activity is a big one, I > dunno) the site is in danger of becoming a little stale, and I think we're > finding it hard to follow through on developing site areas in communicating > chapter work etc. > > I note that there's something in a plan I saw somewhere for there to be > some sort of wm-au blog? Perhaps this would be a good channel - and I for > one would be happy to post things like reports from Wiki Wednesdays, > meetups, that sort of thing. > > I vaguely recall that the committee appointed someone (or maybe a > sub-committee!) to oversee the site in general - but I can't remember who > that is, and I'd certainly like to offer some help in general, as well as > inviting feedback from other members and interested parties - perhaps the > AGM coming up in a few months would be a good target for a medium-sized > relaunch of a site with a bit higher standard across the board? > > I won't commit heresy at this point by suggesting we look at using > something clever like Confluence to produce something a bit better looking, > and more functional, but I really do think we need to aim higher - I feel > like we're sort of letting MediaWiki down a bit with our effort at the mo. > :-) > > thoughts most welcome, > > best, > > Peter > PM. >
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