The discussion has now been moved to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikimania_wikis apparently, where it will probably also get archived not too distant in the future. I hope someone will post a link here to that archive page.
Lodewijk 2016-10-22 11:07 GMT+02:00 Rehman Abubakr <[email protected]>: > (cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l) > > > Hi, > > > As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response > from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new > topic posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, > with regards to having a single unified Wikimania wiki. > > I have copied the original post below for ease of reading. Please post > your comments on the meta page. > > > ********** > > Hi. I was looking at Special:SiteMatrix > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix> and couldn't help > noticing the whopping 14 separate wikis (and growing) for all the different > Wikimanias, including a separate wiki for a "Wikimania team". Is there any > current plans of a more sustainable or streamlined approach to running > these wikis? > > I am aware that this has been discussed a few times before, but no > significant effort was put into it. Wikimania project domain > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_project_domain> is the most > significant discussion which I could find, but participation was quite low > on that, with no(?) WMF staff comments. > > From what I understand from the above linked discussion, some key points > against a unified Wikimania wiki was that: > > 1. We will not be able to preserve old Wikimania wikis as a "time capsule" > 2. Older Wikimania organizers may face new organizers "steamrolling" over > their pages > 3. Organizers will not have complete control over the site as old admins > might interrupt for whatever reasons. (or vice versa) > > My though for these points was: > > 1. Why not have each Wikimania project branch their pages as > wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016/Main page, or alternatively, have > separate namespaces for each project (i.e. 2016:, 2017:, etc). We could > then protect all pages under a project (i.e. 2016/ or 2016:) once a project > is over. > 2. This could be avoided by protection, as stated above. > 3. Make it much less complicated. Once the project is over, all previous > admin rights will be revoked, and the new organizers will get the rights. > New admins can be advise to not modify previous project namespaces, or if > better, if we can block previous projects' namespaces from editing? > Furthermore, there could be a bot logging all changes made to old project > namespaces, for transparency. > > Is there any other views on this? Did I miss something obvious? Looking > forward to your comments. Cheers, Rehman. > > ********** > > > Thanks and regards, > > User:Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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