Hi,
Right now, we already have a dozen separate wikis for each past and future Wikimanias, and
there's no doubt there'll be much more to come.
The idea here is to have a single Wikimania wiki (
wikimania.wikimedia.org) for all
conferences, instead of the current separate-wiki style (
wikimania2012.wikimedia.org).
This has been discussed at Wikimania project domain in 2011, but it seems to have quickly
ran outta gas.
Key issues addressed:
* Q1: Organizers (alone) of a current conference needs to have absolute control over the
conference wiki (aka being an admin).
* A1: Wikimania wikis does not run as normal projects. Hence, all organizers shall easily
be given admin rights (and former organizers removed) as it becomes necessary. The cycle
continues.
* Q2: What about archiving past wikis? What if we need to look back?
* A2: Except for key pages (such as the Main Page), all other pages of each project could
be created under the respective year's subpage. For example, all 2012 conference's
pages would be under [
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012/page/page/etc].
Additionally if necessary, any vital page requiring archiving could also be edit protected
(cascading style too, if possible).
Please respond at the existing Wikimania project domain proposal page, and help it get off
the ground.
Thanks!
[[User:Rehman]]
P.s. If for some reason the links in the above mail don't work, the Wikimania project
domain proposal can be found at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_project_domain