While I agree on principle, it can be more than difficult to merge sister
projects at this point of time. Wiktionary, wikibook, and wikisource and so
on have very different users. Some of them even dread the idea of belonging
to Wikipedia. Cross-project colaboration must be encouraged, yes, but
placing all of them in one wiki won't make things better in principle.
However, small not cared projects should be joined. Those without a visible
community after some talking with the only existing editor(many wikisources
and wiktionaries) could be merged as to foster the develop of those
projects.
Alhen
@alhen_ at twitter
591-79592235
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 22:48, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, . Courcelles
<courcelleswiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> I couldn't agree more, now that the date has passed, so should
> ten.wikipedia. Outreach and Strategy have a mission, but nothing so
> distinct that it would be out of scope on Meta, and combining those
three
> projects would reduce the overhead in time
and process required to
maintain
all
three/four wikis.
Just to speak about tenwiki...
There has been an open discussion since March (no rush to close) about
what
to do with the site.[1] You're all welcome to
participate in that if you
have an opinion about what to do.
That discussion was interesting for this one, because it brings up issues
such as that merging even a relatively small wiki like ten (565 content
pages, 3,204 total pages) into Meta would probably take some considerable
work.
With tenwiki, as with the older Wikimania wikis, there doesn't seem
much point in merging them into Meta. Just leave 'em once they are
done, but Outreach and Strategy are continuing and it'd be a lot
easier if they could just be part of Meta.
Plus, the "tenth anniversary year" of Wikipedia is still rolling, and
the tenth anniversary of Wikipedias in Polish, Afrikaans, Norwegian
and Esperanto are coming up this year.
--
Tom Morris
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