Small wikis need a lot more administrative work per articles than larger wikis. If there isn't any clear real reason then simply don't make a new wiki.
John
phoebe ayers wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kimeekim@blueoxen.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
- Could you please help update the meta page on the process with your
thoughts and ideas? [[m:Strategic planning 2009]] What's your current rough timeline for the coming 12 months?
We'll start seeding Meta with what we know (and probably quite a bit of what we don't) today, and I'll look forward to reading other people's thoughts.
On creating a new Wiki: I hear you. I'm constantly fighting Wiki-creep with some of my other communities and clients. Creating new Wikis is often knee-jerk, and knee-jerk is usually not the best thing.
There's a tradeoff between starting with a blank slate and the need to re-establish a community and a set of norms. My gut tells me that a blank slate is better for this project, but I'm open to other feedback.
Re: creating a new wiki -- I talked to Eugene about this briefly last week and agreed at the time that a new wiki would be useful (for starting the project fresh with a blank slate) -- but the more I think about it, and reading Angela's and Mike's posts, sticking to meta for now seems like the best route. It's practical, as there is already a community of spam fighters, translators and template builders ready to go, and many of the people who will be interested in strategic planning are already there (and in many cases are already active meta editors); and it's fitting with the role of meta, which is meant to be a multi-lingual place to discuss the Foundation ... which sounds like strategic planning to me. And I suspect many of the ideas that will be brought up in the planning process will have already been discussed somewhere on meta at some point, and can be linked to and integrated in easily from there.
Anyway, an open to-do list for things that need doing -- whether it's building out meta or anything else -- would be great too, to help give guidance to people who want to help out but don't quite know what's going on.
-- Phoebe
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