[Wikipedia-l] Wikimedia, MediaWiki logos uploaded

Mon Oct 20 09:24:15 UTC 2003

Erik wrote:
>We should strive to make the Wikimedia page 
>itself somewhat useful as well, with a clear mission 
>statement, 

Good idea! A page on meta should be used to write this. Let's do that here:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mission_statement

>and perhaps the news directly on the main page 
>(weblog-style).

Another great idea! Perhaps the first 4 or 5 H3 headings at  
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News would work via a simple script 
(ignoring the wiki-specific text in the H2)? A link to "more..." would, of 
course, be to the fully editable meta page and the "News" link in the sidebar 
should also stay. 

If that is done though, full HTML should be disabled for that exported text 
(otherwise somebody could edit the Wikimedia News page to do nasty things to 
the computers and personal info of anybody visiting the Wikimedia home page).  
Oh and wiki links would need to be converted to HTML 'a hrefs' on-the-fly for 
this instead of being displayed as bracket text (the current behavior of 
Brion's neat-o 'export meta page text to wikimediafoundation.org' hack). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

PS http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News should, of course, be 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News , but that can wait. 