On 2/9/07, David Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand why Wikimania should have a new site every year. We > could be using categories or subpages to organize the annual content. > > Samuel Klein wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Aphaia wrote: > > > >> Thank you Phoebe, for your note. > >> On 2/9/07, phoebe ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Just a quick note -- there was a little spate of vandalism on the > >>> wikimania2006 site (http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org) last week. I > >>> think it's all cleaned up now, but this is just a reminder that this > >>> is still an open wiki > >> We are better to close/freeze it and archive it? Also [[Wmania:]] can > >> be changed to the current site, not the 2006 one? Or it may cause > >> confusion? > > > > Let's make a Wikimania07: so there's no future confusion... > > those links should not suddenly break in the future b/c the interwiki > > list is changed. > > > > Perhaps limit archived sites to existing users when they drop below a few > > edits a week, with a simple "request an account" link for anyone who wants > > a new account...
It is high time to redirect Wikimania.wikimedia.org to wikimania2007.wikimedia.org. People need to start planning their submissions and journeys to the conference this summer! Er, Brion....? :) As for archiving/freezing the 2006 site -- I wouldn't complain; there was another rash of autofellatio images today (linked from commons, no less). There's still work that could be done on the proceedings; but preventing new usernames from registering, with a request button for new accounts as Sj suggests, would help quite a bit on the vandalism front. Can this be done? As for separate sites -- it makes a nice clean division between each year's conference. Even if it's a good idea to have one site, though, I'm not volunteering to merge the three conference sites together at this point :) -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
