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

Sun Apr 2 19:05:05 UTC 2006

On 4/2/06, Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de> wrote:
> Cormac Lawler schrieb:
>
> > The fact that people might not be using the Wikimedia UK pages (if
> > that's true) is a symptom of the fact that *we* haven't provided for
> > that. That's you, me, and the others who have been working on this
> > over the last few months. If you want to get participation of and
> > ideas from Welsh speakers, you use a variety of methods (email, wiki,
> > IRC, real-life meetings) and a variety of these mailing lists, wikis,
> > chatrooms and community gatherings to bring together some ideas. The
> > fact that it's not what we want it to be right now is nothing to do
> > with Meta *itself*.
>
> When we started Wikimedia Deutschland, we decided to use meta-wiki to
> host the wiki pages related to the verein instead of hosting them on the
> german wikipedia. The effect: nothings happens there. I think
> participation on these pages would have been much higher, had they been
> in the german wikipedia. I don't know the situation for the other
> chapters, but it might be similar.
>
> So, it somehow _has_ to do with meta itself.
>
> greetings,
> elian

Ah, right - that's definitely a point - that would apply to Wikimedia
UK. But this is about people not_using_Meta, rather than
Meta_itself_being_unusable. I'd really like more people to get
involved on Meta, and as much as I link to pages from Wikipedia notice
boards etc., only a small number actually come. And before anybody
jumps on this and says "look, that's what we've been saying all along
- Meta is unusable", I would say "well, i've been agreeing with you
all along - Meta needs improvement". :-)

Cormac


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