[Wikipedia-l] The meta question

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- Brion VIBBER <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> As some of you may have noticed, meta.wikipedia.com
> is running on a 
> version of the phase II wiki software from last
> December or so. It's 
> kinda buggy, and not being maintained. It probably
> ought to be moved to 
> the new server and upgraded to the current software
> at some point.
> 
> Also, it's been suggested that it might be nice to
> have a way to move 
> (non-)articles from the Wikipedia (English, or I
> suppose any language -- 
> I don't see any reason why meta shouldn't be
> multilingual) to the meta 
> wiki with edit histories intact.
> 
> Is this desireable?
> 
> What about redirects from the main wiki(s) to the
> meta wiki? I've seen 
> people try to do it occasionally (it doesn't work,
> you just get a link 
> following the mysterious and unhelpful "1.
> REDIRECT").

I say yes, please, to all of Brion's suggestions.

Stephen Gilbert

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