Hi Erik,
On 06/12/12 00:03, Erik Moeller wrote:
I'm curious what folks here think about making some noise about the
two most recent additions to the Wikimedia family around January or
February.
Great Idea!
Wikivoyage is still finishing up the beta phase (image
transfers, logo import etc.) this month, and Wikidata isn't live as a
repository yet -- but we could set a target date that would work for
both projects.
I do not know the state of WikiVoyage but congratulations to the team of
Wikivoyage.
Form Wikidata I do not think that this will make much sense. Most of the
people working on Wikipedia know about Wikidata, but the pure
"consumers" do not know about it.
At the moment those would probably think, "Nice way to combine articles
across different Wikipedias". But they do not see the real potential of
Wikidata. Having those centralized interlanguage-links is really great
but most people do not see the difference.
What I'm imagining is an actual banner on Wikimedia projects
announcing the launch of both Wikivoyage and Wikidata, pointing to a
landing page explaining what these projects are, how to participate,
etc. That page could be drafted on Meta. Then interested folks would
visit the projects to learn more and get involved.
This will be great for Wikivoyage, but not for Wikidata. There the
folk's job is testing of the software not participating data.
Wikimedia projects obviously have an enormous reach and I think this
could help create awareness and build community -- but it could also
be an unwelcome influx in the early stages. This could be regulated by
running a banner only for logged in users, or x% of readers.
I assume most of the logged in users already know about the two
projects. So the wikivoyage banner could be shown to a percentage of
pure consumers by January or February.
For Wikidata I would suggest to do that a bit later, maybe April/May?
Thoughts?
All in all: Great idea – for Wikidata maybe a bit to early?
BTW: I never came to the idea mentioning Wikivoyage and Wikidata in on
sentense. ;-)
Marco
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