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

[Michael Snow]

Guillaume Paumier wrote:
>> 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).
>   
This sounds much more like potential progress than shifting things to a 
new wiki. I can see Florence's point about the challenges with Meta's 
main page making it not just a working environment, but a very 
strange-looking one. I think a more public-facing main page and separate 
working portal would be beneficial. I note that while I frequently visit 
Meta (much more than I edit there), I almost never go there through what 
is now the main page. I usually arrive through links to other pages, and 
then navigate to anything else I need to look at. I would almost say 
that its main page, by not knowing which of these purposes it serves, is 
presently failing at both.

--Michael Snow