David Gerard wrote:
This isn't a proposal for an English meta at all. It was an attempt to make Meta actually useful as a cross-project work wiki, rather than a disorganised collection of historical documents with a few working pages camped out in the archaeological rubble.
Can anyone please explain to me what "work" means here?
One of the archaic pages on meta is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies which hasn't really changed much since September 2004. The project proposal is dead, nobody works on it. There are few better examples of dead meat on meta.
The current proposal to "overhaul" meta seems to suggest that the Wikispecies page could be simply deleted. Is that correct?
Then next month, someone can come to this new, fresh and legacy-free meta to do "work", for example by suggesting a new project called Wikispecies. Since there is no previous mentioning of this idea, it must be new. Brave new world!
If I'm missing something here, perhaps a better explanation of the overhaul plans could be needed.