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Meta-Wikipedia is a wiki meant to work alongside the main Wikipedia project. Meta can be used for several Wikipedia-related purposes:
- Meta-project: Discuss and formulate project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies; organize events, contents; philosophical discussions
- Meta-content: Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files
- Meta-code: Coordinate the development process and user guide
If you're looking for a place to post encyclopedia articles, head over to the main project sites:
- Afrikaans - العربية (Araby) - Bosanski - Català - Česká - Cymraeg - Dansk - Deutsch - Eesti - English - Español - Esperanto - Euskara - Français - Frysk - Gaeilge - 한국어 (Hangukeo) - Hrvatski - Interlingua - Italiano - Ivrit - Latina - Magyar - Nederlands - 日本語 (Nihongo) - Norsk - Polski - Plattdüütsch - Português - Româna - Русский (Russkiy) - Slovensko - Suomi - Српски (Srpski) - Svenska - Türkçe - 中文 (Zhongwen)
Experiment with editing in the Meta-Wikipedia Sandbox!
The software: MediaWiki - MediaWiki architecture - MediaWiki User's Guide
Wikipedia4 (just questions, for now, what should this include?)
Current issues
(a rough digest of what's topical on the mailing list & elsewhere)
- Wikitext standard
- Donation blurb
- fair use
- inline linking
- Before we get too carried away with the "ratification process"-- submit new collaborative variations of the final logo, see PM final logo design variations
- Linguistic democracy in a multilingual project
- Why Wikipedia runs slow
- Redirected user pages considered harmful
- About attempts to get maps for Wikipedia
- Please help write Wikimedia's first press release
- SVG whiteboard Draw within an SVG file on WP?
- Help us find a Wikipedia mascot!
- Wikipedia is more popular than...
- Persuasion technology anyone to help before it is properly put somewhere ?
- Mysterious wikipedia user subpages ?
- Wikipedia Weekly News -- a proposed weekly newsletter.
- What to do with www.wiktionary.org
- Quality of articles
- permission grant extent - are we allowed to use all content under the GFDL? or just text?
- Inclusionism vs Deletionism
Interlingual issues
- Thoughts on language integration - Proposal on language integration: merge of database
- Two Russian WPs
Releases of Wikipedia
- Paper Wikipedia - and underlying Wikipedia DTD
- Wikipedia on CD/DVD
Social
- wikipedia meetup (12 May!)
- Talk_media There are 2 main talk media: Talk: pages, and mailing lists. This article addresses relevant topics to this such as: Language issues, providing structure to increase productivity, possibly combining all talk media into one..
Technical
- Development policy -- General policy for Wikipedia script development
- Deletion management redesign
- User details special page: Making it easier to create sysops
- Cache strategy: on speeding up the server
- Main causes of lag: To deal with a problem, we need to know its cause!
- Wikipedia client - offline reader and editor (proposed) important for increasing Wikipedia presence in countries with low broadband penetration and high dial-up internet costs
- Frequency of search engine cache updates What's the point of making timely changes if it takes like a month before search engines update their cache of Wikipedia pages?
- Caractères spéciaux - special characters to copy & paste on each page?
Misc
- Ideas on how to write about--and how not to write about--film (KQ and whoever cares to respond)
- Help to clean up this page at Main Page/temp!
- User Differentiation Between Wikipedia and Meta-Wikipedia
Wikimedia
- Wikimedia - extending the Wikipedia family
Wiki textbooks
Editing, counting, naming
- table syntax and simplified tables (proposed) - but see also Image pages for a temporary solution
- Article count reform: Let's build a better counter for all Wikipedias.
- Math Markup -- inline TeX support for math
- Credibility
- Dynamic dates
Core issues: etiquette, consensus, permission, vandals, ethics, morals
- Etiquette
- Wikipedia vandalism
- Uploads being abused
- Consensus and implications of its definition for all of the core issues
- Simple View of Ethics and Morals
- Be bold in updating pages
- Should talk pages be used for debating?
- Should Wikipedia Use Profanity? (Stephen Gilbert and others)
- Freedom of choosing a username debate
- Standard email texts for asking permission to use texts or images
Usability and user interface
- What is a user?
- Cross language interface issues
- Standards issues
- Regarding URLs and change of URL for English pedia
- What to do with www.wikipedia.org
- Move meta.wikipedia.org to wikimedia.org? New 2003-06-07
- The provisional portal of Wikipedia
- SVG image support
- Protected pages considered harmful
- Empty page page
- Recent Changes redesign
- Browser issues with Wikipedia
- Usability phase I or II
Sister project proposals
- Wiktionary: a dictionary project now online: http://wiktionary.org
- Wikiquote: a quotation project now online: http://quote.wikipedia.org
- Wikimagery: a picture book of images
- Wikisaurus: a thesaurus project (defunct since Wiktionary is also a thesaurus)
- Wikipediatlas - and underlying spacetime DTD
- WikiWorld - a geopolitical resource describing how the world governs itself.
- Wikiteer: a gazetteer project
- Wikews: a newspaper project - and underlying person DTD
- Project Sourceberg (what to do about primary sources - see TIPAESA also)
- The need for some form of Wikipedia Yearbook
- Slotipedia - A Proposal
- Wikipedia Virtual Mind
- Wikitank: an Internet think tank(s) project
- Wikiversity: an online wiki-like University
- WikiRecipes: an online free recipe book, as a free alternative to allrecipes.com
English usage
- Vocabulary - an educational and an ethical issue
- Defining vocabulary - the core glossary, should coordinate with [1]
- Use of the present tense, and overuse of the past tense
- Wikipedia is not Wiki - a little bit of wiki nomenclature
Copyright
- Copyright - what is 'fair use' in quotation and what violates laws? whose law applies? what problems are we actually trying to solve here?
- Avoid Copyright Paranoia!
- Wikipedia and copyright issues
- Copyright bot
- Wikipedia Designated Agent
Interlingual coordination
- Mailing list-s cleaner topic segregation of the mailing lists
- Wikipedia software upgrade status
- Date formats for language linking
- Locales for the Wikipedia Software
- International logo
- International promotion material -- new!
- Countries of the world tables
- Wikipedia Machine Translation Project
- International wikipedia question
- Final international solution
- Statistics for International Wikipedias
- There is also a English Wikipedia available -- International help necessary
- Future of international Wikipedias as part of the main community
- Open letter to the Enciclopedia Libre group
- Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities
- Wikipedias and cross-fertilisation
- Supporting an English Dialect - Cockney Rhyming Slang Wikipedia
- Interlingual coordination (outdated)
Characters and contributors
- Various Wikipedian essays
- How I became a Wikipedian
- Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
Neutral point of view
- Neutral point of view--draft
- Proposed revision of the NPOV policy
- NPOV as description not prescription
- Systemic Bias of Wikipedia
- Early Muslim view of history - "all records are liable to error..."
- Natural point of view
- NPOV is an ideal
- Consensus editing
Community forming
Wikipedia building
Talks
- Disarmament crisis of March 2003
- A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian
- Markup vs MetaForming
- Autograph collecting do's and dont's
- Latino Unity
- The Importance of Airline Companies in the Modern World
- 24's contributions
- Talk:Viral meme
- Talk:Benjamin Netanyahu On Terrorism
- Talk:List of famous people who had sex with animals
- 2000 Sydney, Australia Gang Rapes
- Corporation SOS
- Wikipedians talks
- Ontological distinction(24)
- The Spice Boys
Form of Wikipedia
- Consolidating v/s breaking up
- The elements of an encyclopedia project (Larry Sanger and whoever else joins in)
- Breadth and depth (Larry Sanger and others)
- Modular content creation (TimShell and others)
- Wiki is not paper (a discussion about ways to improve upon the traditional encyclopedia concept)
- Kill the Stub Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Improving Portal Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Get rid of subpages entirely (Larry Sanger)
- Format issues under the PHP script
- Appropriate content and plump waterfowl
- Send this article to a friend
- Listing deleted titles
- Presentation Conventions and so forth
- Use pinyin not Wade-Giles
- Technical categories in Wikipedia
- Species names (to be specific) (John Lynch)
- video policy
People, places, times
- How to write non-American names - see also person DTD
- Dates in Wikipedia - see also spacetime DTD
- U.S. vs. US - see also ecoregion DTD
Wikipedia history
- Historical Wikipedia pages -- a museum of old pages
- History of Wikipedia -- Wikipedia and where it's been
- Wikipedia commentary
Wikipedia and where it should go
- best cases which wikipedia could realize
- The future of Wikipedia (Kpjas and others)
- Visions of what wikipedia could ultimately become (fantasies)
- Wikipedia4 timeline (proposed, very tenative)
- How to Build Wikipedia (The Cunctator) - an open exhortation
- A Better Wikipedia
- WikipediAhimsa
- Wikipedia cloning project
- Discussion on business models and organizational charters applicable to large free wikis
- GFDL Workshop
- Logo suggestions
- Wikipedia Client
- Wikipedia T-shirts (now available in Esperanto!)
- Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor (BryceHarrington)
- The ideal Wikipedia board
Where it actually is
- Making Wikipedia profitable (Neeklamy and others)
- The Wikipedia Community - and your own ideas of community
- The importance of being Wikipedia (help spread the word!)
What might damage it (hazards, things that must be done right)
- How to Destroy Wikipedia (The Cunctator) - an open challenge
- Threats that wikipedia might face, in your most paranoid nightmare
- Worst cases of what could happen to wikipedia (realistically)
- Responding to the Critics (Stephen Gilbert)
- Wikipedia drop-outs
- Discussion about FOLDOC fork
- Wikipedia's first press release--draft for comment
- Advertising on Wikipedia (Jimbo Wales, with comments by others)
- Integrating Two Integrative Sites (a proposal from Kris Roose of the Integration Website
- Wikipedia Governance - Jimbo Wales (Response to 24's governance)
- Wikicide - a one sentence definition
Wikipedia hackfest
- How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- Running MediaWiki on Windows
- Database queries on MediaWiki
- Text in MediaWiki
- MediaWiki math markup
- RDF spool
- Wiki markup tables -- proposals
- Wiki markup syntax - see Wikipedia DTD
- meta.wikipedia.org technical issues
- en:Wikipedia:Sites using MediaWiki
Wikipedia humor
- Logo suggestions--humorous logos
- Wikipedia Anti-rules (by some very productive Wikipedians)
- Wikipedia haiku
- Making fun of Britannica
- Bushisms
- Gore-ism
POV articles moved from Wikipedia
Other texts about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia -- An Online Collaborative Encyclopedia -- an article for the w:The Canadian Writer's Guide (13th Edition), by Mark Jeays
- Wikipedia (Everything2) -- an en:Everything2 node by Axel Boldt
September 11
Form of Meta-Wikipedia
Meta-Wikipedia is not a disposal site for uncorrectable articles from the different Wikipedias, and it is not a hosting provider for personal essays of all types. If you're looking for a wiki-based community, check out MeatballWiki's community list. If you're looking for free webspace, you can find a list here. If you want to build your own wiki, try SeedWiki for a free wiki or check out the list of wiki engines.
- Wikipedia:Requests for deletion (to propose a page for deletion)
- Wikipedia:Requests for undeletions (to challenge a decision of deletion)
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