--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
... which was woefully incomplete. I am completely in
favor of properly
internationalizing MediaWiki and putting a bounty on the implementation.
However, such an implementation should be generic, i.e. it should allow us
to migrate Wikipedia itself into that system. This requires some way to
deal with namespace conflicts - e.g.
wikimedia.org/en/Merchandising vs.
wikimedia.org/de/Merchandising (the current Merchandising page on Meta is
actually German), and we would have to set up automatic redirects for
subdomain access. Given that, setting subdomains up now while we don't
have this advanced code will put us well on the road to a nice general
solution for all Wikimedia projects once we have it.
If there is a problem with naming conflicts, then that is a very good reason to
have separate wikis. That problem does not really exist for meta, wikisource,
and wikibooks. In short, I think we should only divide things up if there is a
compelling reason. Meta in *particular* is there for multiproject and
multilingual coordination. How is that coordination going to happen on separate
wikis?
Sorry, I will not support balkanization of Meta. We should work on improving
the interface situation instead.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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