[Foundation-l] Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

[Anthere]

Matt Brown wrote:
> On 3/30/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Certainly. Have meta and enjoy it as a separate community increasingly
>>unusable by any other, as is working so well for Commons, rather than
>>the service project it purports to be; just stop representing it as
>>such, because it simply isn't.
> 
> 
> Am I right in feeling that a lot of your frustration here, David, is
> that you feel that Meta and Commons were not supposed to be
> 'communities' at all?  That they were supposed to be shared project
> space and managed as such?
> 
> -Matt


Your comment reminds me of several disagreements which boiled up with 
wikibooks. Last summer, a few users started kicking off wikiversity out 
of wikibooks quite vigorously. More recently, it was the Wikimania 
proceedings.

And actually... Robert made a comment where I really think he had a 
point. He said he had the feeling some of us could not easily accept 
that there was a community on wikibooks, that people outside wikibooks 
could not just do of Wikibooks whatever they felt like. He insisted that 
the project had its own community and its own rules. Which is true. We 
tend to forget this. The weight of the big Wikipedia brother :-(

Ant