[Foundation-l] Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

[Erik Moeller]

On 3/30/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I suggest a meta2
> be created as an actual current work wiki, and meta be kept with its
> primary function as an archive.

There are a few things Meta needs:
1) Archiving historical pages as such. This is being done through
[[Meta:Historical]]. That's not necessarily the best way of doing it,
but it may work.
2) Multilingual MediaWiki. This is under development. Much of the mess
is the result of people using very different mechanisms to
disambiguate pages in different languages.
3) Standardized categories, standardized page hierarchies. There are
many hierarchies which are internally consistent, but not with each
other.
4) Clean-up the so-called software documentation or move it to mediawiki.org.
5) Better separation of different types of content beyond
categorization, e.g. discussions from concrete proposals.

Some of the mess also results from the organization (WMF) being in
flux - old structures are replaced with new ones which are just now
being created. I might also dig up my CPOV policy proposal from a long
time ago. ;-)

What it doesn't need is misplaced anger or silly forks. What it
doesn't need is people with very little involvement in all the things
that are and have been happening on Meta (contests, votes, proposals,
discussions, essays, specifications, papers, promotion materials,
translations, community pages, and so forth) to insult the project and
its community as a whole by referring to its primary function as an
"archive". If you don't want to make more people angry at you than you
already have, then I suggest you take a break from this discussion
right about now.

Erik