[Wikimediameta-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimedia mouvement

[Florence Devouard]

Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [CCing to wikimediameta-l]
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Given that I was the one who originally suggested that it would be a
>> good idea to open wmf editing thanks to flaggued revisions, I am not
>> going to say it is a bad idea.
>>
>> However, considering wmf site as the official hosting of information
>> regarding all of our organization would be a huge mistake.
>>
>> WMF needs to control its editorial content as it is a corporate website.
> 
> I concur ; wikimediafoundation.org is the website of the Foundation,
> and that's all.
> 
>> Could this be hosted on meta ?
>>
>> Yes, certainly. At least for a while.
>> But again, the role of that new site would be different from the role of
>> meta and this might enter in conflict, in particular with regards to the
>> main page.
> 
> In my opinion, meta-wiki already is the wiki of the wikimedia movement
> / community / <insert your preferred word here> ; it's the wiki where
> people from various Wikimedia communities, chapters, and foundation
> all gather.
> 
> Wikimedia projets tend to have two main pages : one main page for
> content (e.g. [[Main Page]]) and one main page for the community (e.g.
> [[Project:Community portal]]). We could use this system on meta to
> have two landing pages, one for PR and one for internal stuff (just
> like on other Wikimedia projects).
> 
> I agree that meta tends to be a mess and it should be cleaned up. It's
> not a new idea (see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_Overhaul_Meta ) but
> the project was abandoned. Some months ago I was thinking about
> creating a new namespace (say Historical:) to archive all the old
> stuff and clean up the wiki a bit.
> 
> In a word, we shouldn't open a brand new community wiki just because
> we're too lazy to clean up the one we've already got for years.
> 


Fair enough :-) I would support the development of two main pages (main 
and  community portal) as well as new workspace "historical" as a start.

Ant