On 30/08/05,
Elisabeth Bauer <elian(a)djini.de> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When I thought about some of the latest discussions on the list and
>meta-wiki here, I had a little crazy idea.
>
>The Wikimedia Foundation website was created a few months ago because we
>wanted something clean and clear to present to outside visitors. People
>shouldn't have to dive in the mess on meta-wiki for getting information
>about Wikimedia.
>
>However, this plan didn't work out in my opinion. WMF wiki isn't
>regularly updated, people aren't sure what should be on meta and what on
>wmf, content is duplicated on meta-wiki, translations have to be
>regularly moved from meta to the wmf wiki and so on.
>
>In my opinion, there are three options:
>* we can continue like this and try to make the best out of it
>* we can drastically reduce the number of pages on WMF, limit the
>translations and make it a very simple information site (similar to what
>was done on
http://www.wikimedia.de, the german associations site)
>* or we can reunify meta-wiki and the WMF wiki under
>http://www.wikimedia.org
>
>Before some of you call now "impossible", I'd like you to think about
>it. We've managed to build an encyclopedia which is visited by thousands
I
have not been able to make up my mind. So I wait for feedback :-)
ant