Hi.
Samuel Klein wrote:
The wiki continues to clutter up
That's not quite apt. I see no backlog of requests for admin action, such as pages proposed for deletion.
With respect, the reality here is that there was a large ongoing cleanup effort that got sidetracked by this coup.
The opening post, which quoted Tomasz, linked to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges, which currently reads:
Maintenance: Deletion requests (7) ยท Proposed deletions (1,163)
There'd be a lot more proposed deletions (probably somewhere around 10,000) if all the volunteers hadn't been put out.
Leaving incorrect donation information and broken donation forms on the site seems like a really bad idea. I think there's general agreement on this point. Plus most of the donation infrastructure is supposed to have moved to a separate wiki, as I understand it.
Migrating all but the essential pages to Meta is a worthy idea, one discussed for some time. Every editor on that wiki can work on that.
If we go in this direction, then we need to get serious about moving to Meta-Wiki and do it systematically. I think making it a 2014 goal is a reasonable timeframe.
MZMcBride