Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Samuel Klein
I would like to see this become an open part of Meta. It is traditional meta-work, and rewarding to improve and revisit regularly. Sam. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.comwrote: On 8/11/2012 8:05 PM, Mono wrote: Should we lock StrategyWiki as historical?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to see this become an open part of Meta. It is traditional meta-work, and rewarding to improve and revisit regularly. Sam. I disagree. Strategy work is Wikimedia Foundation's focus planning. Meta is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Symonds
I'd also support this sort of thing going to meta. Perhaps not marking everything as historical, but certainly a slow move to a central location that's easy for newbies to find. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 12 August 2012 13:04, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: I'd also support this sort of thing going to meta. Perhaps not marking everything as historical, but certainly a slow move to a central location that's easy for newbies to find. Strategy Wiki has already been

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Ziko van Dijk
It seems to me that there was a period in the WMF history when it was popular to install new wikis, for strategy or outreach, instead of using Meta. I don't see the advantages of having seperate wikis, or disadvantages of Meta. Meta has always been the platform for the whole movement, not only the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
Thehelpfulone wrote: Strategy Wiki has already been configured as an import source for Meta-Wiki, so any admins on Meta (there are plenty) will be able to import pages cross-wiki with full history via https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import. Perhaps we could put things into a new

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
Ziko van Dijk wrote: It seems to me that there was a period in the WMF history when it was popular to install new wikis, for strategy or outreach, instead of using Meta. I don't see the advantages of having seperate wikis, or disadvantages of Meta. Meta has always been the platform for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Katie Chan
On 12/08/2012 16:45, MZMcBride wrote: Ziko van Dijk wrote: It seems to me that there was a period in the WMF history when it was popular to install new wikis, for strategy or outreach, instead of using Meta. I don't see the advantages of having seperate wikis, or disadvantages of Meta. Meta has

[Wikimedia-l] reach of projects by geography

2012-08-12 Thread phoebe ayers
Speaking of moving strategy pages to meta... I was recently looking for the information that is contained in these pages: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europe http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa