[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

Sat Apr 1 19:21:01 UTC 2006

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>Robert Scott Horning wrote:
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>>In the case of Wikispecies, we need to keep that around as a historical 
>>reminder to find out just what went wrong with that proposal, and why 
>>did the project turn out so poorly. Negative examples are just as 
>>important as positive examples of project pages like the Wikinews or 
>>Wikibooks pages on Meta.  So are you proposing to delete the Wikinews 
>>page as well, since the project is already up and running and no longer 
>>needs the page on Meta?  The logic is identical here other than a few 
>>more recent edits have happened on the Wikinews page instead.
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>I don't think that it is fair to say that Wikispecies has turned out 
>poorly.  I just checked the RC there and there were over 250 entries in 
>the last 24 hours.  Is that doing poorly?
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Compared to similar projects that have been around for the same length 
of time, its Alexa ranking, and the fact that it is linked prominently 
on the front page of every Wikimedia sister project, yeah, it isn't 
doing as well as it could or should be doing.  I don't want to open the 
can of worms about the project status of Wikispecies, but there are some 
problems on that project that simply need to work everything out.  It 
has also been commonly cited as an example of a project that hasn't 
worked out or wouldn't be approved if it had to go through the current 
new project policy.

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Robert Scott Horning