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

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you MZM, for making those long-needed changes!  That made my day.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:33 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola
>> <aaron.adrignola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Erik Moeller 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).
>>>
>>> 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!

Yes!

Phoebe Ayers writes;
> My solution to the challenge of combining everything would be to have
> a global edit sprint -- "meta-cleanup-and-merge editing party
> weekend!"

This sounds like a perfect topic for a barnraising.

Sam.

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