[Wikipedia-l] The meta question

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu
Sat Sep 21 10:22:13 UTC 2002


>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?

This is all eminently desirable, IMO.

>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").

That would go with the moving, presumably.


-- Toby



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