‘About’ and the main page
Comparing the existing main page with the draft of the new one, I see we have got rid of the 2-paragraph introduction which includes the sentence about translatewiki.net not being part of MediaWiki or any other project. I think that this is quite important to understand and I’m not sure how many visitors would easily find their way to the About page by using the link at the bottom of the main page. It might be best to add a special link to the About page in a new section, after the section ‘We accept new projects’. Proposed text of new section:
About us
We are not part of MediaWiki or any other project… Learn more
I have also suggested some additions to the About page – see its talk page.
Can it be said with other words? The thing to understand here is that we have many projects and that we are independent and not that we have nothing to do with our projects and hate them (which is of course not true).
Hmm. How about 'We are an independent project, localising open source projects at their request...learn more'.
Or if you think that, since this information is in the first two paragraphs of 'About', we don't need it on the main page itself, then we could just go for something like 'Want to know who we are? Click here.'