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It may differ significantly from <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Wikimedia">the current version</a></span>.</div><div id="mw-revision-nav">(<a href="/w/index.php?title=Growing_Wikimedia&diff=prev&oldid=26092276" title="Growing Wikimedia">diff</a>) <a href="/w/index.php?title=Growing_Wikimedia&direction=prev&oldid=26092276" title="Growing Wikimedia">← Older revision</a> | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)</div></div></div></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><i>See also <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_principles" title="Wikimedia principles">Wikimedia principles</a></i> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Community" data-mw-thread-id="h-Community"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Community"></span>Community<span 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(fantasies)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia4" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia4">Wikipedia4</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia4_timeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia4 timeline">timeline</a> (proposed, very tenative)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/A_Better_Wikipedia" title="A Better Wikipedia">A Better Wikipedia</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/WikipediAhimsa" title="WikipediAhimsa">WikipediAhimsa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_cloning_project" title="Wikipedia cloning project">Wikipedia cloning project</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Discussion_on_business_models_and_organizational_charters_applicable_to_large_free_wikis" title="Discussion on business models and organizational charters applicable to large free wikis">Discussion on business models and organizational charters applicable to large free wikis</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/GFDL_Workshop" title="GFDL Workshop">GFDL Workshop</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Proposal_for_an_Encyclopedian_Recycling_Endeavor" title="Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor">Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=BryceHarrington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BryceHarrington (page does not exist)">BryceHarrington</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_ideal_Wikipedia_board" class="mw-redirect" title="The ideal Wikipedia board">The ideal Wikipedia board</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Logo_suggestions" title="Logo suggestions">Logo suggestions</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Client" title="Wikipedia Client">Wikipedia Client</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_T-shirts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia T-shirts">Wikipedia T-shirts</a> (now available in Esperanto!)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org" title="What to do with www.wikipedia.org">What to do with www.wikipedia.org</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:MwZurp" title="User:MwZurp">Use a local Wikipedia from inside Emacs</a></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Where_it_actually_is" data-mw-thread-id="h-Where_it_actually_is"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Where_it_actually_is"></span>Where it actually is<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Where_it_actually_is"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growing_Wikimedia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Where it actually is"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Making_Wikipedia_profitable" title="Making Wikipedia profitable">Making Wikipedia profitable</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Neeklamy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neeklamy (page does not exist)">Neeklamy</a> and others)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Community" title="The Wikipedia Community">The Wikipedia Community</a> - and your own ideas of <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_importance_of_being_Wikipedia" title="The importance of being Wikipedia">The importance of being Wikipedia</a> (help spread the word!)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Interlingual_coordination" title="Interlingual coordination">Interlingual coordination</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Transwiki" class="mw-disambig" title="Transwiki">Transwiki</a> - for moving articles between different languages</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Statistics_for_International_Wikipedias" title="Statistics for International Wikipedias">Statistics for International Wikipedias</a></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Growing_and_managing_the_community" data-mw-thread-id="h-Growing_and_managing_the_community"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Growing_and_managing_the_community"></span>Growing and managing the community<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Growing_and_managing_the_community"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growing_Wikimedia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Growing and managing the community"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many things we truly have to decide in order to get along here and now. We seek assistance on the following core issues that keep us 'alive': </p> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/The_ideal_Wikipedia_board" class="mw-redirect" title="The ideal Wikipedia board">The ideal Wikipedia board</a> - to decide <a href="/wiki/Governance" title="Governance">governance</a> issues like these:</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_board_manual" title="Wikipedia board manual">Wikipedia board manual</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Recruiting_editors" title="Recruiting editors">recruiting editors</a></dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recruiting_authors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Recruiting authors (page does not exist)">recruiting authors</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia4" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia4">Wikipedia4</a> features</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia4_timeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia4 timeline">Wikipedia4 timeline</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nine_leverage_points" class="mw-redirect" title="Nine leverage points">Nine leverage points</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_sociology" title="Wikipedia sociology">wikipedia sociology</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedias_and_cross-fertilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedias and cross-fertilisation">Wikipedias and cross-fertilisation</a></dd> <dd>Help us find a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_mascot" title="Wikipedia mascot">Wikipedia mascot</a>!</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/There_is_also_an_English_Wikipedia_available" title="There is also an English Wikipedia available">There is also an English Wikipedia available</a> -- International help necessary</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Future_of_international_Wikipedias_as_part_of_the_main_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Future of international Wikipedias as part of the main community">Future of international Wikipedias as part of the main community</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thoughts_on_Wikipedia_interlanguage_priorities" title="Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities">Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mediation" title="Mediation">Mediation</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Singular_Wikimedia_account" class="mw-redirect" title="Singular Wikimedia account">Singular Wikimedia account</a></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_might_damage_it_(hazards,_things_that_must_be_done_right)" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_might_damage_it_(hazards,_things_that_must_be_done_right)"><span id="What_might_damage_it_.28hazards.2C_things_that_must_be_done_right.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_might_damage_it_(hazards,_things_that_must_be_done_right)"></span>What might damage it (hazards, things that must be done right)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_might_damage_it_(hazards,_things_that_must_be_done_right)"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growing_Wikimedia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: What might damage it (hazards, things that must be done right)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/How_to_Destroy_Wikipedia" class="mw-redirect" title="How to Destroy Wikipedia">How to Destroy Wikipedia</a> (<a href="/wiki/The_Cunctator" class="mw-redirect" title="The Cunctator">The Cunctator</a>) - an open challenge</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Threats" title="Threats">Threats</a> that wikipedia might face, in your most paranoid nightmare</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Worst_cases" title="Worst cases">Worst cases</a> of what could happen to wikipedia (realistically)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Responding_to_the_Critics" title="Responding to the Critics">Responding to the Critics</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gilbert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Gilbert">Stephen Gilbert</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_drop-outs" title="Wikipedia drop-outs">Wikipedia drop-outs</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Talk:SunirShah" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:SunirShah">Discussion about FOLDOC fork</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia%27s_first_press_release--draft_for_comment" title="Wikipedia's first press release--draft for comment">Wikipedia's first press release--draft for comment</a></dd> <dd><i><a href="/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia" title="Advertising on Wikipedia">Advertising on Wikipedia</a> (Jimbo Wales, with comments by others)]</i></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Governance" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia Governance">Wikipedia Governance</a> - 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