On 12/6/02 1:43 PM, "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:

Brion wrote:

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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.