Note: I deleted the stuff I agree with completely.
Anything which is usable by all Wikimedia project needs to be at a project-neutral domain. Would it not be odd to have Wikipedia's images at images.wikibooks.org?
IMHO it'd make a lot more sense to have it at images.wikimedia.org, but images.wikibooks.org would still be ok.
We are /all/ one super-community here - Wikimedia - thus we should all share things such as mailing list domains, image space, meta, log-ins etc. This will tend to bind us all together, instead of being separate projects which happen to be on the same server. People from one project should be reminded where it makes sense that there are other Wikimedia projects. This will encourage cross-polination of ideas and also help to make sure projects do not duplicate work (no need for textbooks in Wikipedia, no need for dictionary entries in Wikibooks etc).
Big picture issues
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav - hopeless INTJ mastermind)
That's a good idea, but aren't there some big technical problems with merging everything (except for the mailing lists)? For example, what if there are two different pictures with the same name? Should one of them be deleted? Should they each be prefixed with a language code or something and then bots will go through and change all of the articles that link to them? The same goes for logins. And why would merging logins fix the problem of people not going to the right wiki? LDan
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