[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation website

Mon Nov 14 11:00:07 UTC 2005

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Anthere wrote:
> We then go back to the idea of the blog or of commenting spaces.
>
> The current most pressing point imho is that editors can not directly comment 
> on news or even on pages. It would be helpful that talk pages are opened to

This is the trouble with trying to have active information flow on closed 
wikis.  How about an open wiki, with protected pages, and protected 
page-creation?

I would like to see a foundation-website which was an analogue to 
Wikisource -- with mission statements, founding papers, official presskits 
and bios, the latest brochures and publications and presentations -- and a 
well-ordered section of meta (a new namespace?  perhaps just an excellent 
portal) devoted to the Foundation.

One reason that the meta main page hasn't developed as beautifully as 
other main pages is that it's hard to pin down what it does -- meta has so 
many faces.  Something like the eve-online.com main page would be a worthy 
experiment, with both foundation meta-info, community info and project 
features, statistics, and outside-world news (trophy box notes, press 
clippings -- btw, can we move on to a trophy shelf now? )

> Fact is, if nothing is written at all, either the opinion will be that we do 
> nothing, or it will be that we are not transparent.

Yes, the best intentions of transparency are only as good as the quality 
and quantity of information flow.  Most important is definitely to 
encourage more writing, by more people, about more subjects.

SJ