On 5/20/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/20/05, Sulev Iva <juvasul at ut.ee> wrote:

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The place where our Wikis are listed for deletion. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Scotland http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Another_.22Wikiped... Where must we move now?

Something's gone very wrong when playing chess on the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chess_championship) is acceptable but creating a demo Wikipedia in a new language is not.

If this does not survive VfD, and you want a temporary small wiki, you're welcome at http://scratchpad.wikicities.com/. For a longer term Wikicity, you need consensus within Wikipedia that this language can *not* exist within Wikimedia.

That's a good offer, Angela. Thank you. We may have to take you up on that. I too feel that its crazy that these articles have been placed on Meta:Rfd when the main purpose of Metapedia is (and has always been) to discuss the direction of the Wikipedia/WikiMedia projects and to help co-ordinate work on existing and new editions. These test-wikis were set up to demonstrate commitment and to thrash out any problems which might impede their development before committing a developer to the task of setting them up properly. This is in order not to waste developer time on creating wikipedias which sound good in principle but aren't viable in practice and I would say that it falls under role three of the four roles described on Meta:About. However if we are going to be "run out of town" before we have had a chance to get properly started, I can only urge that the new wikipedias be set up properly immediately without a test period on Meta so that we have somewhere to run to.

Cheers

Derek

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