[Wikipedia-l] Rethinking Meta (was- Wikiquote now has subdomains)

Mon Jul 19 03:34:57 UTC 2004

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> This may be a good time to rethink our approach to Meta. Currently there  
> is just one big, messy Meta-Wiki, with neither particularly clear policies  
> (although my CPOV draft attempts to remedy this to some extent) nor  
> interlanguage links. Help texts are spread across the "MediaWiki User's  
> Guide" and the Help: namespace, with non-English texts in the English  
> language Help: space. On the other hand, as Mav keeps pointing out, we  
> have no real community editable Wikimedia presence.
> 
> How about a setup like this:
> de.wikimedia.org
> en.wikimedia.org
> fr.wikimedia.org

Absolutely not! We need ONE place where we can all come together. That place is
currently meta. I'm therefore very strongly opposed to balkanizing the only
common place we all can edit. The interface issues need to be fixed and Meta
should be made into a truly multilingual wiki. 

-- mav

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