On 12/6/02 1:43 PM, "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Brion wrote:
Theoretically, one might keep them as
physically separate wikis/databases while
_encyclopedia_ sections in all languages are
consolidated into a single database that is
aware of the connections between languages.
Yes, please lets have all the encyclopedia sections in
one wiki and keep this separate from non-encyclopedia
projects such as meta, sep11 etc. This is conceptually
clean and also allows for meta to be a place where
Wikipedians can go when, for whatever reason, the
encyclopedia wiki is down (being on a separate sever
would further help). Meta also works differently than
the encyclopedias do and will probably need to become
a hybrid PediaWiki/bbs (or something) in the future.
So in order to allow for the evolution of Meta it
really should be kept separate (the same is true, to
an extent, for the other non-encyclopedia projects).
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In terms of either their goals or
software needs each project (encyclopedia, tribute,
meta and source) is a different animal and really
should have their own cages.
I agree. My only amendment is that all the projects should share the same
user database.