Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Gnome

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The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Description[edit]

Extend and improve the coverage of GNOME desktop environment and GTK+ related articles, provide an icubator and a platform for discussion over common issues of Gnome coverage. Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 12:29, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of important categories for this proposed group

List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles

Though major projects like WikiProject Free Software and WikiProject Computing already monitor GNOME coverage, it would largely benefit from some degree of collaboration in a centralized manner and a central place where the discussion of cross-article issues may take place.

Another possible benefit would be a single place for incubation and discussion of GNOME-related articles and changes, where all editors interested in Gnome could participate.

The parent project for this one might be WikiProject Free Software.

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

  1. Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 12:29, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Gnome vs. GNOME[edit]

GNOME is an acronym: GNU Network Object Model Environment - so the title of this proposed project should be "WikiProject GNOME", which would also avoid confusion with any possible future project about gnomes...er, unless this really is a project about gnomes. SteveBaker (talk) 14:30, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not to leave this comment out of context: I initially used naming Gnome throughout the page. As SteveBaker is right about the acronym and its official usage, I replaced all Gnome occurrences here with GNOME. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 14:41, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scope[edit]

In my opinion the scope of this project is too narrow (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing#WikiProject restructuring and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing#WikiProject Gnome proposal). A task force under the umbrella of WikiProject Computing would be more appropriate. —Ruud 18:00, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, please. See #WikiProject Restructuring above. We already have way to many overly specific (and as a result dead) WikiProjects. Just set up a task force under this project if you want a dedicated article assessment infrastructure or recent changes list (although I fail to see how Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:GNOME is insufficient for that). —Ruud 15:06, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
IMHO there is no issue with dead WikiProjects. If there won't be enough editors to participate in this one, the WikiProject won't start anyway. On the other side, if the amount of supporters will be high enough, it will make sense to try and fall back as per Your suggestion in case of failure. Anyway, could I ask You to mirror Your suggestion to the proposal's page, so that interested editors (if any) could think about it before supporting the project. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 16:58, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify what the problem with dead WikiProjects is: I've been a GNOME user for nearly a decade, if someone posted a GNOME-related question or request here I would likely respond. I have however little interest in watchlisting an following yet another WikiProject. If you would start a separate project focussing specifically on GNOME, you would give people the impression that this would be the most appropriate to put their GNOME-related post, while in reality that post would be much more likely to be ignored than if put here. —Ruud 17:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.
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