Tim-
Wikiquote now has specific-language subdomains. Instead of creating wikis for all 150 languages, I made a system where wikis are only created when they're wanted. To save time during maintenance operations, it should now be possible to delete unused Wiktionaries and even Wikipedias until they are required.
This may be a good time to rethink our approach to Meta. Currently there is just one big, messy Meta-Wiki, with neither particularly clear policies (although my CPOV draft attempts to remedy this to some extent) nor interlanguage links. Help texts are spread across the "MediaWiki User's Guide" and the Help: namespace, with non-English texts in the English language Help: space. On the other hand, as Mav keeps pointing out, we have no real community editable Wikimedia presence.
How about a setup like this: de.wikimedia.org en.wikimedia.org fr.wikimedia.org ...
This is more logical (Meta is not just about Wikipedia but about all Wikimedia projects), it allows us to use interlanguage links, to see RC only for the languages you are interested in, and to maintain the documentation separately for each language in the respective localized Help: namespace. It would encourage internationalization for things like project-wide votes.
The major downside: In the present system, you would have to create an account for each edition of Meta. So it might make sense to postpone this until Single Sign-On is implemented.
In any case, I think there should be no separate Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Foundation wiki - they should be the same thing.
Thoughts?
Regards,
Erik