[Foundation-l] Merge wikis

Mon Jul 4 12:09:07 UTC 2011

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 22:48, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, . Courcelles <courcelleswiki at gmail.com>wrote:
>> I couldn't agree more, now that the date has passed, so should
>> ten.wikipedia.  Outreach and Strategy have a mission, but nothing so
>> distinct that it would be out of scope on Meta, and combining those three
>> projects would reduce the overhead in time and process required to maintain
>> all three/four wikis.
>>
>
> Just to speak about tenwiki...
>
> There has been an open discussion since March (no rush to close) about what
> to do with the site.[1] You're all welcome to participate in that if you
> have an opinion about what to do.
>
> That discussion was interesting for this one, because it brings up issues
> such as that merging even a relatively small wiki like ten (565 content
> pages, 3,204 total pages) into Meta would probably take some considerable
> work.
>

With tenwiki, as with the older Wikimania wikis, there doesn't seem
much point in merging them into Meta. Just leave 'em once they are
done, but Outreach and Strategy are continuing and it'd be a lot
easier if they could just be part of Meta.

Plus, the "tenth anniversary year" of Wikipedia is still rolling, and
the tenth anniversary of Wikipedias in Polish, Afrikaans, Norwegian
and Esperanto are coming up this year.

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