On 04/03/2013 04:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Sure, but following this argument we could just have
dev.wikipedia.org, right?
All of the wikitech, wikimediafoundation, outrech and
other wikis together have fewer articles than the
English Wikipedia. All could fit on
meta.wikimedia.org.
Unfortunately the urge to "change" and make your
own footprint in history is so much stronger than to
actually organize knowledge and keep things small.
The idea to invent a new name (Wikimedia) in 2003
was a mistake, as everybody in outreach can testify.
So many hours have been wasted trying to explain
that there is a difference between P and M. I think
we should keep the door open for the event that
the next CEO (after Sue) might want to rename it to
Wikipedia Foundation.
Dev.wikipedia.org or (better)
meta.wikipedia.org would be better than "wikitech".
So much of statistics and analytics is not strictly
"tech", but all of it, including outreach, is "meta".
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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