https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64557
--- Comment #42 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kevin Rutherford from comment #41) > MZM, the main issue about working on Meta is that we are very limited right > now in our outreach activities, when we are citing multiple pages for > events. Many chapters and groups have some alternate domain registered. For example, wikimediadc.org or wikimedia.de. You could easily make wikimediane.org/wiki/Foo redirect to meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_England/Foo. Or have usne.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foo redirect to Meta-Wiki, for that matter. There are plenty of other ideas to consider as well. There's no technical limitation to creating new wikis; in fact doing so is relatively easy and streamlined. However that doesn't mean that making new wikis is the correct solution to this problem. A lot of the work over the past few years has been trying to merge content back into Meta-Wiki as hyper-specialized wikis are annoying to maintain. > Granted, having one more page will not necessarily help this issue, > but the idea is to move off of the Meta page and onto the new site in order > to give us an official location for outreach. In addition to outreach.wikimedia.org, of course. > Additionally, having a site will give us more legitimacy in the short-term, as > we will be able to run our on affairs without creating a ton of sub-pages > under our Meta page. We're overrun with wikis. The particular approach being discussed here will at least ensure that the wiki's software stays up-to-date, as the wiki will be part of the Wikimedia Foundation cluster, but it may also limit flexibility in terms of e-mail hosting and other sysadmin-type changes given that you'll be on the wikimedia.org domain. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
