[Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

MZMcBride, 19/11/2013 04:59:
> I think it might be a reasonable goal for 2014 to do away with the wiki.
> Meta-Wiki will make a fine home.

+1. Nowadays, the most technical/scary HTML things are on donatewiki 
anyway, I guess. Even while the foundationwiki zombie is still around, 
Meta can immediately be used to improve content: 247 board resolutions 
have been copied to Meta and are translatable there, all the policies 
will join them soon.[0] 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MessageGroupStats/agg-WMF_Resolutions>

The 20+ private/restricted wikis[1] WMF has on its own are a serious 
liability: they are impossible to maintain, there is a reason if 
Nupedia's closed editing failed. ;-) WMF doesn't have capacity, so maybe 
– as suggested by Luis in a copyright-related discussion[2] – they could 
make some interns assess their content (what can become public, what 
needs to stay private to the same group of people, what can be shared on 
Internal) and then start consolidating stuff. Or even better, just merge 
them all to Internal, moving each to its own namespace with WMDE's 
Lockdown extension as interim solution; and move stuff there as needed.

Nemo

[0] If you can help with some copy and paste work, let us know at 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Babylon>
[1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Private_wikis>
[2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45767#c9>