[Foundation-l] Project Proposal Demo Pages

Mon Feb 7 19:47:04 UTC 2005

I've been working on a new project proposal, and I've considered trying 
to demonstrate what the site would look like by creating a few wiki 
pages and putting a little content together.  Rather than going through 
the whole hassle of trying physically setting up the website as a demo 
on my own server, and because I don't have a 24/7 internet connection at 
the moment, I'd like to demonstrate what I think the website could look 
like by setting up some content pages demonstrating the concept.

Right now, I've put together the following page:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WikiStandards

Before I start really pushing forward and adding content, I wanted to 
ask the foundation community if this is an acceptable practice, and just 
where, perhaps, I should put this content.  While I started this on 
Wikibooks, now that I've been reflecting on this a little bit I'm 
thinking this perhaps should be on meta for now, simply because this 
really is a different thing and is a project proposal.

If it is acceptable to do something like this, I'd also like some 
guidelines regarding mainly how much content should be on a demo site 
like this.  Obviously this is something that is just starting out, but I 
also don't intend to make this a working sub project either and treating 
this as a fully-funtional wiki in its own right.  In this case I think 
it will be easier for me to explain what I am proposing by actually 
showing real content and how it could be useful to the Wikimedia 
community in general.  If the project gets approved, it would also be a 
good way to seed the new project right away.

I'm also suggesing a minor change to the new proposal policy and making 
a demo project as a part of the proposal process.  Obviously if there 
are software changes that have to be made this can't be done on the demo 
side, but a great deal can be done with the tools already available. 
 For most of the proposed projects, it would show if it is a serious 
proposal or simply some wishful thinking that you had daydreaming one night.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning