From: Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 14:48:09 -0700 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

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.

We did something similar when Simple English Wikibooks was closed and its content merged to English Wikibooks [1].

I note that there's been protest on the discussion page that the content would be out of scope for Meta, however. This reminds me when content was pushed from Meta to Wikibooks [2] for MakerFaire 2010 [3], supposedly with the blessing of stewards and Cary Bass [4]. This content is "out of scope" for Wikibooks, especially given its encyclopedic format, but it goes to show that a project's scope can evolve. Wikibooks used to host video game strategy guides, for instance (and had a lot more visitors as a result).

-- Adrignola

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Simple_English_merger [2] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MakerFairePedia [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2010 [4] http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Category:MakerFairePedia&oldid...