What would *exactly* be on the english meta ?
What would editors do there ?
How would we handle duplications with meta ?
I can see some benefits for an english meta, but if the only arguments
to set up one are
1) editors will have the benefits of following english wikipedia rules
----> what about the other projects in english ?
2) that meta will be clean of any historical pages (most of them
actually being from english editors...)
I would say that might not be sufficient.
Anthere
Angela wrote:
(I'm copying this to wikien-l since the issue of
whether the English
Wikipedia needs its own "meta" is probably better discussed there. See
<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/thread.html>
for previous mails.)
Alex Schenck <linuxbeak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A.) It would be heavily based upon most of the
policies from en.wikipedia.
Some things can change, but it will be a site designed with the purpose of
being an extention of en.wikipedia instead of an entirely separate project.
Meta2 will exist for Wikipedia instead of being a standalone project.
Does the community on the English Wikipedia need or want to be
expanded in this way?
There has always been some opposition to moving anything to meta
(though perhaps single login will alleviate some of the concerns).
There is currently confusion about what should be on the English
Wikipedia and what should be on meta. "Don't be a dick" is on meta,
but "Wikipedia:Complete bollocks" is on Wikipedia. Recentism is on
Wikipedia, deletionism is on meta.
Is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_essays
supposed to be different to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Essays ?
Are chess, quizzes, and humor pages supposed to be on meta or en?
(They're currently on both).
Are you suggesting that all of this stuff would move to Meta2? Is
there any advantage to that? Is there likely to be any agreement about
it within the English Wikipedia community?
Angela.
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