Hi Sam, Coincidentally, there is a discussion going on in Wikipedia Weekly facebook group and my exact concern has been proposed there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2016791771701977/
Regards, Bodhisattwa On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, 10:25 Sam Wilson <s...@samwilson.id.au wrote: > It'd be worth making a note about your concerns at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/community_review > > As far as I can see, there's no plan to change Wikisource's name. It's > more about making 'Wikipedia' more prominent than 'Wikimedia' (which it > already is in most people's eyes). 'Wikisource' doesn't come into it. > > (I'm saying this as myself, not as WMF staff.) > > It's encouraging that Wikisource has relatively high awareness (p.38 of > the report > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Brand_Research_Report.pdf > ), ahead of Wikidata and Commons. They do note that the high awareness > of Wikinews and Wikibooks is likely to be because they sound like > generic names of things. > > —Sam. > > On 2/8/19 11:19 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have heard from a trusted source few months back that there are talks > > in WMF to rebrand all sister projects under the name Wikipedia. If that > > happens some day, Wikisource will be no more as it is and it will be > > called something like Wikipedia-source etc. The logic for this kind of > > step is that people doesn't know or understand Wikimedia, but everyone > > knows only about Wikipedia. > > > > I think, the recent blog in the Foundation site is the first step to do > > such things. > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia-brands/ > > > > IMHO, very few people know about sister projects, because they didn't > > get the love they needed from WMF or other affiliates. Everything is so > > Wikipedia centric. But that can't be the fault of the sister projects. > > > > I hope this rebranding doesnt become true someday. > > > > Regards, > > Bodhisattwa > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikisource-l mailing list > > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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