--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@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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