This is good, but I think it should only be short term.
Long term, I am convinced that there is a better option. I'm swamped with other things right now, but I've been reading this list, and I'd like to weigh in briefly. I'd advocate placing the MetaWikipedia information in its own namespace on the PHP wikipedia software.
That way, we could show encyclopedia changes in one table, with meta pages (including the Talk: namespace) in another table. We want the meta-information to be easily accessible, and easily linked (at least in user's minds) to the relevant Talk and Article namespaces. That way we can easily move information back and forth (refactoring discussion to add information to encyclopedia articles, and to add policy decisions to the MetaWikipedia namespaces.)
So, I'm all for a metawikipedia wiki for now, as a testing ground for the concept, and as a testing ground for no-subpages, but I am convinced that in the end, we'll really want all of this to be "together" so we can have easy access to all the information about wikipedia in one place. This also lets us write code that will allow us to gather and present even more information in simple ways. For example it would be nice to see the % of meta page edits to actual article edits over a given period, so we can track how "on task" we've been.
Yours Mark
-----Original Message----- From: lsanger@nupedia.com [mailto:lsanger@nupedia.com] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:33 PM To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Let's do it!
Jimbo asked if he should create meta.wikipedia.com and I said "yes." I don't know when it will be created, but it should be fairly soon.
This will help us test both the installation and the operability of the new software in a live situation, not just a "test" situation. If we like, we can always move the stuff back to a "discussion:" or "commentary:" namespace on www.wikipedia.com. But it might turn out that we'll like it just fine as it is.
When the wiki is up, we'll let you know.
Larry
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