Hello,
[CCing to wikimediameta-l]
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Given that I was the one who originally suggested that it would be a good idea to open wmf editing thanks to flaggued revisions, I am not going to say it is a bad idea.
However, considering wmf site as the official hosting of information regarding all of our organization would be a huge mistake.
WMF needs to control its editorial content as it is a corporate website.
I concur ; wikimediafoundation.org is the website of the Foundation, and that's all.
Could this be hosted on meta ?
Yes, certainly. At least for a while. But again, the role of that new site would be different from the role of meta and this might enter in conflict, in particular with regards to the main page.
In my opinion, meta-wiki already is the wiki of the wikimedia movement / community / <insert your preferred word here> ; it's the wiki where people from various Wikimedia communities, chapters, and foundation all gather.
Wikimedia projets tend to have two main pages : one main page for content (e.g. [[Main Page]]) and one main page for the community (e.g. [[Project:Community portal]]). We could use this system on meta to have two landing pages, one for PR and one for internal stuff (just like on other Wikimedia projects).
I agree that meta tends to be a mess and it should be cleaned up. It's not a new idea (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_Overhaul_Meta ) but the project was abandoned. Some months ago I was thinking about creating a new namespace (say Historical:) to archive all the old stuff and clean up the wiki a bit.
In a word, we shouldn't open a brand new community wiki just because we're too lazy to clean up the one we've already got for years.