[Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sun Aug 12 15:45:31 UTC 2012


Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> It seems to me that there was a period in the WMF history when it was
> "popular" to install new wikis, for strategy or outreach, instead of
> using Meta. I don't see the advantages of having seperate wikis, or
> disadvantages of Meta. Meta has always been the platform for the whole
> movement, not only the wiki content websites. By the way, the WCA
> decided not to have a wiki of its own but to use Meta.

I'm not sure what a WCA is.

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_fragmentation> discusses "many of the
reasons that people fragment what are otherwise sensible critical-mass
communities or projects into multiple beautiful-but-subcritical communities
which fade over time."

MZMcBride





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