On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/01/2011 11:52 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: >> 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. > > Thanks for raising this issue. Previously discussed system of redirects > and Incubator Extension [1] would help not just to the Incubator, but to > the languages with smaller amount of speakers, as well as to Meta forks. > So, instead of having numerous meta wikis, we could have just one > (Meta), with separate namespaces, which would get redirects. Thus, > namespace "Strategy:" could be strategy.wikimedia.org; namespace > "Research" could be research.wikimedia.org etc. > > [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/235020?page=last
I agree, a focus on new namespaces (perhaps with differentiated editing permissions, per Liam) certainly looks like the best path forward to me. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
