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Purpose of this page

Hi. I've posted here about the purpose of this page. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:18, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think any of those goals for the main page is fine, so long as someone who cares about design feels ownership of the page and takes an interest in its large-form structure. And revisits the design from time to time. (If there's noone who feels that way, then allowing some random walks through design space is better than stagnation.) Sj (talk) 06:02, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References to volunteers and volunteering

Considering that most of the work of the Wikimedia movement is done by volunteers, it would be good to state this fact more explicitly at the home. There is a Volunteering link in the side bar and that's it. We probably don't need yet another block in the cluttered homepage, but I would expect short references in the mentions about "help" and "support". Currently they refer only to donations and job offers, when in fact the most basic way to help has always been to volunteer with your time and skills.--Qgil (talk) 19:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Recent and upcoming changes to Home (March 2013)

Hi. I wanted to explain some of my recent changes to Home and then explain where I'd like to see this page headed.

Recent changes
  • Removed {{HomeLang}} for now: translations of Home are embarrassingly out-of-date (e.g., this one or this one, both of which mention reports that are outdated or show videos that are outdated).
  • In this edit, I moved the vision statement to the bottom of the page. I think it's fine to include on the home page, but at this point in Wikimedia's life, I don't think we still need to be including it so prominently. It's fine as a footer, in my opinion. I also bumped up the font size of the intro paragraph and made some other very minor coding tweaks (syntax cleanup, mostly).
  • I also inserted "educational" into the intro text as I believe this is part of the scope of every Wikimedia wiki (Commons seems to place particular emphasis on content being educational), but that whole block of text could use some (grammar) love, if anyone would like to help.
Upcoming changes

For reference, this is the current version being described below.

  • Move a bunch of the strategic plan description text to its dedicated page (Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan Summary); this content doesn't need to be on the home page any longer.
  • Consolidate the following sections into a "Latest reports and releases from the Wikimedia Foundation" section:
    • Strategic Plan
    • Annual Report
    • Annual Plan
    • "Latest reports" index
    • "Latest press releases"
  • The five reports/releases sections mentioned will likely end up pointing to two different portals (or indices): Press releases and Reports.
  • Re-title the blog section "Latest news and views"
    • Related issue is that the page currently claims the blog contains the "latest news and views from the Wikimedia Foundation", when many blog posts are specifically disavowed as being the Wikimedia Foundation's view, as I understand it. Best to not be so specific here, I think.

Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, concerns, etc. regarding these changes. I imagine the upcoming changes will happen in the next week or two, if there aren't any objections. I'm happy to use a sandbox to showcase/demonstrate some of these changes, but I'll only do so as necessary. If there's no other interest in this page, it doesn't make too much sense for me to focus effort on creating a demo when I can simply update the live page. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 20:08, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever you do, please keep a simple structure with most of the content being on the page itself rather than on templates or subpages, so that at some point we can easily switch to Translate extension translation. Thanks, Nemo 20:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]