Wiki consolidation: Please base this on common project goals - Wikitech-l

6 Dec 2002

Brion wrote:
...
 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). 

...
 Or, all sections (the encyclopedia in each 
language, the multilingual meta-discussion, 
and the any-language memorial wiki) could go 
into a single glob, and we make a distinction 
between types of sections only for purposes of 
linking encyclopedia articles on the same topic
together. 
I don't like this option at all. It does makes perfect
sense to have all encyclopedia sections in one wiki
but tribute sections and Meta should be on their own
Wikis (one for all tribute sections and one for Meta -
ProjectSourceburg should probably also have its own
wiki too since this project really does need special
software features). 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. 

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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