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@tommorris.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 22:48, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, . Courcelles <courcelleswiki@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.
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