But, meta is supposed to be about the whole project, not just the English project, so incorporating it as a namespace in English privileges English unwisely. Or does it?
Anyhow, my thinking has always been that Meta is about the entire project and so it should be a separate domain name, as it is.
That certainly makes sense; one caveat would be that's just as true for nearly everything in the Wikipedia: namespace.
And everything in meta.wikipedia is in English...
I want it to be clear I don't particularly care if it's at meta.wikipedia.com or wikipedia.com/wiki/meta:. What I do care about is that people can easily organize/understand all the various content, to be able to move obviously between wikipedia: and meta and mainspace content. Right now there's getting to be a lot of unnecessary overlap and balkanization of content (through no intentional actions, just imperfect organization) in the FAQ, the Policy sections, Meta, the mailing list, etc. It's good to have all these separate interfaces to knowledge organization, but there need to be the best possible cross-connection tools as well.
Does that make any sense? I'm sure it's unnecessarily verbose.
--tc