[Foundation-l] Merge wikis

Mon Jul 4 14:31:27 UTC 2011

While I agree on principle, it can be more than difficult to merge sister
projects at this point of time. Wiktionary, wikibook, and wikisource and so
on have very different users. Some of them even dread the idea of belonging
to Wikipedia. Cross-project colaboration must be encouraged, yes, but
placing all of them in one wiki won't make things better in principle.

However, small not cared projects should be joined. Those without a visible
community after some talking with the only existing editor(many wikisources
and wiktionaries) could be merged as to foster the develop of those
projects.

Alhen
@alhen_ at twitter
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>
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