- The current meta-wiki is dead.
No it is not. Look at the Recent Changes. If you are missing something there, start a new page, hope that enough people (able to speak the language you choose)are interrested in the topic, and see what happens. Maybe announce it on one of the mailing lists.
Yes, there is a lot of crap. If something really annoys you, start a page [[Pages that should be deleted]] and explain it there or ask on the talk page for deletion.
The name meta.wikipedia sounds good to me. Where is the problem?
- The meta-wikipedia is not multilingual at all and it
cannot be.
Tomasz already answered this one.
- Practically meta-wikipedia and maing lists segregate the
majoriy of wikipedians from the decision-making.
What is now happing is decision-making occurs in the place that most of people don't see. The recent changes in English- edition wikipedia is the critical place where most of people notice even minor changes. In the reality, meta-wikipedia practically separate people to express their voices.
So everything should be discussed in the English Wikipedia:-namespace? I already overlook things on the German Wikipedia, how could I notice them on the English one? Or should we start to discuss e.g. a new table syntax also on the German Wikipedia? And on all the other Wikipedias? It doesn't sound like a good idea.
BTW, I'd like to have every Wikipedia:-namespace page on my watchlist automatically. Whould this be easy to implement?
The majority of users just aren't interrested in the software developement and administration. Everybody who is can subscribe to our lists and/or go to meta. It's just one click away (unlike Alaska) :-)
Kurt