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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