Hi, Le 5 avril 2012 05:04, Jürgen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com> a écrit : > Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein <sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu>: > >> 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. > > I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into > Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is > largely due to the fact that hardly anyone knows about them. Wikipedia > is the only Wikimedia brand people know of. There is nothing you can > do about it. If the sister projects were living in their own > namespaces within Wikipedia this would be different. We would have, > say, a Wikipedia dictionary. They would become part of Wikipedia and, > hence, partaking in Wikipedia's popularity. Putting money in sister > projects just means wasting funds. The future lies in integrating them > into Wikipedia. Five years of experience is enough to tell.
I beg to disagree on all this. Yes, people do not know about the sister projects, but you can do a lot about that. First, start by promoting them, instead of only promoting Wikipedia. There are very good reasons why these projects are separate: different scopes, different rules, etc. Merging them at this point would be the worst idea: they would sink in the sea of controversy. No, the future does not lie in making one for binding them all in the darkness. ;o) The future lies in diversity. Five years of indifference do not prove anything. > Regards, > Jürgen. Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l