[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki consolidation: Please base this on common project goals

[The Cunctator]

On 12/6/02 1:43 PM, "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Brion wrote:
>> Theoretically, one might keep them as
>> physically separate wikis/databases while
>> _encyclopedia_ sections in all languages are
>> consolidated into a single database that is
>> aware of the connections between languages.
> 
> Yes, please lets have all the encyclopedia sections in
> one wiki and keep this separate from non-encyclopedia
> projects such as meta, sep11 etc. This is conceptually
> clean and also allows for meta to be a place where
> Wikipedians can go when, for whatever reason, the
> encyclopedia wiki is down (being on a separate sever
> would further help). Meta also works differently than
> the encyclopedias do and will probably need to become
> a hybrid PediaWiki/bbs (or something) in the future.
> So in order to allow for the evolution of Meta it
> really should be kept separate (the same is true, to
> an extent, for the other non-encyclopedia projects).

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> In terms of either their goals or
> software needs each project (encyclopedia, tribute,
> meta and source) is a different animal and really
> should have their own cages.

I agree. My only amendment is that all the projects should share the same
user database.