If merging existing wikis is resource intensive, lets start the process by not creating new wikis for thins that should be projects within existing wikis. So wikimania 2012, or if it is too late for that Wikimania 2013 could be a project within meta.
But my suspicion is that a bit of development and the adding of appropriate suffixes would make merger of wikis straightforward - and worth doing as this would go a long way towards encouraging collaboration across wikis and making the whole operation more understandable and functional. Remember the concept of the wisdom of crowds rather relies on there being crowds, so the more we hive things off into standalone wikis the more we undermine the essence that makes this place work. WSC > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:56:43 -0700 > From: Alec Conroy <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <CA+Gi05DLGhp+nxoPciGxQ_QqECpGVtKQ0d-j3f92=lfsgsp...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> That discussion was interesting for this one, because it brings up issues >> such as that merging even a relatively small wiki like ten (565 content >> pages, 3,204 total pages) into Meta would probably take some considerable >> work. > > We need to lower barriers to cross-project collaboration. A > SUL-linked userspace and crossproject transclusion will be a good > first start. We ultimately want to be in a place where merges can > be done with only trivial effort. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > End of foundation-l Digest, Vol 88, Issue 9 > ******************************************* > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
