On 04/03/2013 04:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Sure, but following this argument we could just have dev.wikipedia.org, right?
All of the wikitech, wikimediafoundation, outrech and other wikis together have fewer articles than the English Wikipedia. All could fit on meta.wikimedia.org.
Unfortunately the urge to "change" and make your own footprint in history is so much stronger than to actually organize knowledge and keep things small.
The idea to invent a new name (Wikimedia) in 2003 was a mistake, as everybody in outreach can testify. So many hours have been wasted trying to explain that there is a difference between P and M. I think we should keep the door open for the event that the next CEO (after Sue) might want to rename it to Wikipedia Foundation. Dev.wikipedia.org or (better) meta.wikipedia.org would be better than "wikitech". So much of statistics and analytics is not strictly "tech", but all of it, including outreach, is "meta".