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