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

[David Gerard]

On 30 January 2011 16:00, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Suggested principle: stuff should go on meta unless there's a very
> > good reason for it not to. The strategy and usability stuff should
> > have been on meta or mediawiki.org in the first place, for example. A
> > wiki for every little thing is a *bad* idea.

> Not that I have anything new to add, but this is one of those threads
> where it's nice to see a long string of +1's.


Although, as Erik pointed out, the opportunity to blithely deploy
useful new extensions, as on Strategy Wiki, may count as a good
reason.


> I wrote an essay a few months ago based on that principle:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Not_my_wiki


+1

;-)


- d.