[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

[Anthere]

What would *exactly* be on the english meta ?

What would editors do there ?

How would we handle duplications with meta ?

I can see some benefits for an english meta, but if the only arguments 
to set up one are
1) editors will have the benefits of following english wikipedia rules
----> what about the other projects in english ?
2) that meta will be clean of any historical pages (most of them 
actually being from english editors...)
I would say that might not be sufficient.

Anthere


Angela wrote:
> (I'm copying this to wikien-l since the issue of whether the English
> Wikipedia needs its own "meta" is probably better discussed there. See
> <http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/thread.html>
> for previous mails.)
> 
> Alex Schenck <linuxbeak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>A.) It would be heavily based upon most of the policies from en.wikipedia.
>>Some things can change, but it will be a site designed with the purpose of
>>being an extention of en.wikipedia instead of an entirely separate project.
>>Meta2 will exist for Wikipedia instead of being a standalone project.
> 
> 
> Does the community on the English Wikipedia need or want to be
> expanded in this way?
> 
> There has always been some opposition to moving anything to meta
> (though perhaps single login will alleviate some of the concerns).
> 
> There is currently confusion about what should be on the English
> Wikipedia and what should be on meta. "Don't be a dick" is on meta,
> but "Wikipedia:Complete bollocks" is on Wikipedia. Recentism is on
> Wikipedia, deletionism is on meta.
> 
> Is
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_essays
> supposed to be different to
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Essays ?
> 
> Are chess, quizzes, and humor pages supposed to be on meta or en?
> (They're currently on both).
> 
> Are you suggesting that all of this stuff would move to Meta2? Is
> there any advantage to that? Is there likely to be any agreement about
> it within the English Wikipedia community?
> 
> Angela.
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