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

[KIZU Naoko]

Respectfully disagreed re: change from meta to plain wikimedia.org

It would be of our convenience but other projects specially
non-Wikipedia ones might be weakened their presence. As an invididual
Wikiquotian, I'm afraid of that.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28 January 2011 20:33, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Such a solution would make it easier to fold separate wikis
>>> (such as a conference wiki) back into Meta when we were done with
>>> them, too.
>>
>> Why fold them into meta afterwards rather than just use Meta from the
>> beginning? Isn't the whole point of the proposal that we stop creating
>> new wikis for everything?
>
> Yes, we should start with integrating the most amenable material (ie
> the most stable/languishing material on side wikis) onto meta as a
> first step in the project.
>
> Changing the url from meta.wikimedia.org to plain vanilla
> wikimedia.org would be one of the last steps, actually.
>
> This should certainly be a multi-stage process, not something that's
> done all in one blow, but it would definitely be good to start a
> project for adapting new namespaces on meta soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
> (User:Pharos)
>
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