[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia for Cell Phones

Fri Jul 16 21:37:12 UTC 2004

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:53:16 -0400, Alex Hottenstein
<ahottenstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, I do not know the protocol here, so who is in charge of
> determining actual product movements?

In theory, the Wikimedia Board
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees) are, but in
practice, it's up to the users interested in a new project to organise
it. It depends what you think you need to start off such a project. If
you need money, then you would need the board's assistance with this.
However, if you simply need a new sub-domain, like
mobile.wikipedia.org or whatever, then this can be requested on Meta
at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_projects assuming
there has been little or no objection to it.

The guidelines that exist for starting a new language Wikipedia might
help, although won't be completely relevant:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia.

If you are only at the stage where you want to be discussing this new
project idea with other interested people, a page on Meta will be the
best place to start documenting your proposal. You can advertise the
idea to get more people interested at places like
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Goings-on.

Talking to some of the developers about this idea might be useful. If
you use IRC, drop into #mediawiki on freenode. If not, Tim Starling
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling) is Wikimedia's
Developer Liaison and should be able to point you in the right
direction.

Hope that helps.

Angela.