Guillaume Paumier wrote:
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).
This sounds much more like potential progress than shifting things to a new wiki. I can see Florence's point about the challenges with Meta's main page making it not just a working environment, but a very strange-looking one. I think a more public-facing main page and separate working portal would be beneficial. I note that while I frequently visit Meta (much more than I edit there), I almost never go there through what is now the main page. I usually arrive through links to other pages, and then navigate to anything else I need to look at. I would almost say that its main page, by not knowing which of these purposes it serves, is presently failing at both.
--Michael Snow