Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Pharos
. My experience on Wikiquote has been unfavorable, to put it mildly, where the en.wiki concept of BLP is non-existent. Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:42:41 +1000 From: jay...@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process The policies of each

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Samuel Klein
, that change would be quite good. My experience on Wikiquote has been unfavorable, to put it mildly, where the en.wiki concept of BLP is non-existent. Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:42:41 +1000 From: jay...@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-06 Thread Tarc Meridian
-l] New Project Process The policies of each project are different for a very good reason. e.g. If English Wikiquote was merged into English Wikipedia, the vast majority of the quote pages would be deleted very quickly, for good or ill. I know I would be the first to get out the sickle. :P

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The WikiData project is at first very much technical. Software is developed and as the software gains a certain level of maturity, a community will start to grow. This community will slowly but surely become integrated with other Wikimedia projects. At this stage all eyes are on Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-05 Thread Fajro
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jürgen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu: I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-05 Thread Yann Forget
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

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Lodewijk
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

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Jürgen Fenn
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.  

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Pharos
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

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process (James Heilman)

2012-04-04 Thread James Heilman
I would love to see two specific proposals taken up. One is The Wikipedia Journal as discussed here http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Journal_%28A_peer-review_journal_to_allow/encourage_academics_to_write_Wikipedia_articles%29 Currently working on corporate partners for this. And the

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Carlos Felipe Antonorsi
Hi everyone, I'm new on the list and this is my fist email, but I've been reading for a while(I'm from es.wiki). I support what Jürgen said, Most of the Wikimedia projects are not very popular (with the exception of Wikipedia and maybe commons). I talk about what I've read and listened to people

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread John Vandenberg
The policies of each project are different for a very good reason. e.g. If English Wikiquote was merged into English Wikipedia, the vast majority of the quote pages would be deleted very quickly, for good or ill. I know I would be the first to get out the sickle. :P On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:22

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or at least cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages? Or invest money in promoting

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread David Gerard
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. - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 3 April 2012 06:50, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Hello, Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or at least

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:47:45 +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this:

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:  - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this:

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
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:

[Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-02 Thread Samuel Klein
With the launch of the WikiData effort, I am reminded that we should return to our early willingness to experiment with new project ideas. This means both starting new types of projects (like commons, like wikidata!) and closing / archiving / spinning off projects (like the sep11 wiki). Two