[Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

[Pharos]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola
<aaron.adrignola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very
>> unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one
>> day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information,
>> collaboration and discussion hub, subsuming both WMF and Meta, and
>> possibly other backstage wikis).
>>
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
> Perhaps have Meta: Strategy:, Outreach: Usability:, Tech:, and Wikimania*:
> namespaces to replace the separated sites in existence today.  The main
> space could cover wikimediafoundation.org content.  Wikimedia: for meta-wiki
> discussion.  Or any variation on that.  At the least, there is no need to
> keep creating new wikis for Wikimania if you properly tag content for the
> year it applies to.
>
> -- Aaron Adrignola

Here, here, for the namespace solution!

There is a lot of flexibility in degrees of differentiation and
control of namespaces that is really underused as a tool, and could
help us get a really integrated and useful 'wiki to rule them all' for
Wikimedia organizational purposes.

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)