> One thing I find irritating and complex about our structure is the > proliferation of small wikis. Now I've no objection to the idea that > we have a wiki for every language on Earth, though where languages are > mutually intelligible such as the major dialects of English it seems > sensible to me that we combine them in one wiki - if necessary with > spelling and alphabet being subject to user preference. > > But I see no reason why ten wiki, Strategy and the various wikimanias > each need their own wiki as opposed to being projects within meta. > > On a broader and more radical note, why do we need separate wikis for > wikiquote, wikiversity, wikipedia wikinews and wiktionary? Surely each > of those could be separate namespaces within a language wiki? > > This would make it much easier when people create an article on > wikipedia that is really a wiktionary or wikinews article as one could > just move it. It would immediately reduce the number of userpages, > watchlists and usertalk pages that one needed to maintain to one per > language (plus meta and commons). It would also foster cooperation > between editors across what are currently different projects if you > had one wiki for each language, as individual wikiprojects would now > work across what are currently quite separate news, quote and pedia > projects. > > WereSpielChequers
Sometimes templates used on different wikis can be incompatible. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
