On 5/20/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
Something's gone very wrong when playing chess on
the wiki
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chess_championship>) is
acceptable but creating a demo Wikipedia in a new language is not.
If this does not survive VfD, and you want a temporary
small wiki,
you're welcome at <http://scratchpad.wikicities.com/>. For a longer
term Wikicity, you need consensus within Wikipedia that this language
can *not* exist within Wikimedia.
That's a good offer, Angela. Thank you. We may have to take you up on that.
I too feel that its crazy that these articles have been placed on Meta:Rfd when
the main purpose of Metapedia is (and has always been) to discuss the
direction of the Wikipedia/WikiMedia projects and to help co-ordinate work on
existing and new editions. These test-wikis were set up to demonstrate
commitment and to thrash out any problems which might impede their
development before committing a developer to the task of setting them up
properly. This is in order not to waste developer time on creating wikipedias
which sound good in principle but aren't viable in practice and I would say that
it falls under role three of the four roles described on Meta:About. However if
we are going to be "run out of town" before we have had a chance to get
properly started, I can only urge that the new wikipedias be set up properly
immediately without a test period on Meta so that we have somewhere to run
to.
Cheers
Derek
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