On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola aaron.adrignola@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information, collaboration and discussion hub, subsuming both WMF and Meta, and possibly other backstage wikis).
-- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Perhaps have Meta: Strategy:, Outreach: Usability:, Tech:, and Wikimania*: namespaces to replace the separated sites in existence today. The main space could cover wikimediafoundation.org content. Wikimedia: for meta-wiki discussion. Or any variation on that. At the least, there is no need to keep creating new wikis for Wikimania if you properly tag content for the year it applies to.
-- Aaron Adrignola
Here, here, for the namespace solution!
There is a lot of flexibility in degrees of differentiation and control of namespaces that is really underused as a tool, and could help us get a really integrated and useful 'wiki to rule them all' for Wikimedia organizational purposes.
+1 for a single wiki with differentiated namespaces for all of these topics :)
I think it would do us a lot of good to be able to recombine all of these topics so when we are looking for a calendar or a presentation bank or a list of media or whatever there is ONE place to go, not five. Such a solution would make it easier to fold separate wikis (such as a conference wiki) back into Meta when we were done with them, too.
My solution to the challenge of combining everything would be to have a global edit sprint -- "meta-cleanup-and-merge editing party weekend!"
-- phoebe