[Foundation-l] Merge wikis

Wed Jul 6 16:51:06 UTC 2011

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Within the general concept of Merging Wikis I agree, it would be good in
> principle to have one uber-wiki that is the central hub of all community
> things

+1

> I wonder - would it be possible in MediaWiki to make it possible for User
> accounts to be given read/edit permissions to different areas of the Wiki.

It's possible, just rough around the edges.

> Personally would like to this new uber-wiki be hosted at *
> http://www.wikimedia.org/* (rather than Meta)

Yes.

> On a separate note, have we had a discussion recently about the name
> "Wikimedia Commons" and whether it would be a good idea to simply call it
> "WikiCommons"

Also a good idea.

SJ