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Some people are itching to place essay-type material on Wikipedia, both about Wikipedia and about other subjects. We've found that this distracts our attention from actual encyclopedia article writing. |
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'''Welcome to [[<tvar name="m-about">Special:MyLanguage/Meta:About</tvar>|Meta-Wiki]]''', the global community site for the [[<tvar name="wmf">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation</tvar>|Wikimedia Foundation's]] [[<tvar name="wm-projects">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects</tvar>|projects]] and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis. |
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Expect essays named according to any other convention to be renamed appropriately. We simply must not run the risk of people mistaking commentary for encyclopedia content. |
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Other meta-focused wikis such as [[<tvar name=outreach-wiki>outreach:</tvar>|Wikimedia Outreach]] are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia [[<tvar name="maillists">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists/Overview</tvar>|mailing lists]] (particularly '''[[<tvar name="wikimedia-l">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia mailing list</tvar>|wikimedia-l]]''', with its low-traffic equivalent [[<tvar name="WikimediaAnnounce">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia Announcements mailing list</tvar>|WikimediaAnnounce]]), [[<tvar name="irc">Special:MyLanguage/IRC</tvar>|IRC channels]] on Libera, individual wikis of [[<tvar name="affiliates">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement affiliates</tvar>|Wikimedia affiliates]], and other places. |
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Ethics, philosophy, objectivity, religion |
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:[[Simple View of Ethics and Morals]] |
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:[[A definition of Philosophy]] and Fields of Knowledge (Ray Van De Walker) |
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:[[Drawbacks of Philosophical Understandings]] (Bryan Mayo) |
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:[[The Problem of Defining Sanity]] (Bruce Hamilton) |
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:[[Investigator as Philosopher]] (Bruce Hamilton) |
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:[[Ethics or Morals]] (Bruce Hamilton) |
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<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects|<translate><!--T:2--> Projects</translate>]]<br> ([[Special:MyLanguage/Complete list of Wikimedia projects|<translate><!--T:3--> complete list</translate>]])</li> |
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:[[Ethics vs. Morals]] -- some rather old discussion about the difference between ethics and morals |
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<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Research:Index|<translate><!--T:4--> Research</translate>]]</li> |
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:[[Media Bias]] (collectively written) |
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<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Babylon|<translate><!--T:5--> Translation</translate>]]<br> ([[Translation requests|<translate><!--T:6--> requests</translate>]])</li> |
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:[[Lee Daniel Crocker/The Myth of the Lone Inventor|The Myth of the Lone Inventor]] (Lee laments the innacuracy of much reporting on inventions and discoveries) |
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<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Vision|<translate><!--T:7--> Vision</translate>]]</li> |
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:[[A pome of sorts in narrative style...]] (Bruce Hamilton) |
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:[[Folklore, myth and religion]] (various) |
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:[[Faith vs science with regard to the Wikipedia]] |
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:[[Disability Etiquette]] |
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:[[Belief in God spectrum]] |
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The world and where it's going |
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:[[Middle East Reconciliation]] ([[Uriyan]]) |
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:[[Stupid Republicans]] (author unknown) |
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:[[The best president to have a beer with]] (various [[Wikipedians]]) |
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:[[Internet Authority Disease]] by [[Sammy snake]] |
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Content of Wikipedia |
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:[[Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor]] ([[BryceHarrington]]) |
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:[[Please help build 911 Attack memorial]] |
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:[[Project Sourceberg]] (what to do about primary sources) |
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Form of Wikipedia |
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:[[The elements of an encyclopedia project]] (Larry Sanger and whoever else joins in) |
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:[[Breadth and depth]] ([[Larry Sanger]] and others) |
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:[[Modular content creation]] (TimShell and others) |
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:[[Wiki is not paper]] (a discussion about ways to improve upon the traditional encyclopedia concept) |
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:[[Should Wikipedia Use Profanity]]? ([[Stephen Gilbert]] and others) |
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:[[When should I link externally]]? ([[GWO]]) |
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:[[Kill the Stub Pages]] ([[BryceHarrington]]) |
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:[[Improving Portal Pages]] ([[BryceHarrington]]) |
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:[[Get rid of subpages entirely]] ([[Larry Sanger]]) |
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:[[How to write non-american names]] |
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:[[Use pinyin not Wade-Giles]] |
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Wikipedia and where it's going |
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:[[Best debates]] about Wikipedia articles |
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:[[Wikipedia Anti-Rules]] (Anonymous and others) |
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:[[Making Wikipedia profitable]] ([[Neeklamy]] and others) |
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:[[The future of Wikipedia]] ([[Kpjas]] and others) |
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:[[The Cunctator/How to destroy Wikipedia|How to Destroy Wikipedia]] ([[The Cunctator]]) - an open challenge |
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:[[The Cunctator/How to build Wikipedia|How to Build Wikipedia]] ([[The Cunctator]]) - an open exhortation |
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:[[Making fun of Britannica]] |
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:[[A better Wikipedia]] |
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:[[Responding to the Critics]] ([[Stephen Gilbert]]) |
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:[[Larrys Big Reply]] (originally on [[Creationism/Talk]]) |
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:(AKA "The Ten Point Plan", or, "We should not impose our values on other thinking people.") |
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:[[SJKs Wikipedia-Specific License proposal]] |
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Latest revision as of 15:28, 27 December 2023
Meta-Wiki
Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.
Other meta-focused wikis such as Wikimedia Outreach are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly wikimedia-l, with its low-traffic equivalent WikimediaAnnounce), IRC channels on Libera, individual wikis of Wikimedia affiliates, and other places.
Current events
May 2024
May 30: | Community Affairs Committee: Live call #2 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 16:00 UTC |
May 23: | Community Affairs Committee: Live call #1 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 02:00 UTC |
May 13–June 23: | Community Affairs Committee: Call for feedback on the proposed Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle |
May 10–May 12: | ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia |
May 8–May 29: | 2024 Board election: Call for candidates |
May 8–June 12: | 2024 Board election: Call for questions for candidates |
May 8–June 3: | Call for new members of the Conference Fund Committee |
May 3–May 5: | Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia |
May 2–May 5: | WikiNusantara in Bogor, Indonesia |
May 2–May 4: | Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up in Santiago, Chile |
April 25–May 9: | UCoC Coordinating Committee election: Voting period (information for voters / list of all candidates) |
April 2024
April 30: | Community Resilience and Sustainability conversation hour with Maggie Dennis at 18:00 UTC |
April 19–April 21: | Wikimedia Summit 2024 in Berlin, Germany |
April 2–April 30: | Movement Charter: Wikimedia communities review of the Movement Charter full draft (talk page discussions / regional conversations) |
Requests
Community and communication
- Babel, a discussion place for Meta-Wiki matters
- Mailing lists and IRC
- Newsletters
- Meetups, a list of offline events
- Wikimedia Embassy, a list of local contacts by language
- Wikimedia Forum, a multilingual forum for Wikimedia projects
- Wikimedians
- Wikimedia Resource Center, a hub for Wikimedia Foundation resources
Core issues and collaboration
Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects
The Wikimedia Foundation is the overarching non-profit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Meta-Wiki is the coordination wiki for the various Wikimedia wikis.
Content projects specialized by linguistic edition
Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia
The free encyclopedia
Wiktionary
Free dictionary and thesaurus
Free dictionary and thesaurus
Wikinews
Free-content news
Free-content news
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide
Free travel guide
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Collection of quotations
Wikiversity
Free learning resources
Free learning resources
Wikisource
Free-content library
Free-content library
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals
Free textbooks and manuals
Multilingual content projects
Wikimedia Commons
Free media repository
Free media repository
Wikidata
Free knowledge base
Free knowledge base
Wikispecies
Free directory of species
Free directory of species
Wikimedia Incubator
For language versions in development
For language versions in development
Wikifunctions
Free code repository
Free code repository
Outreach and administration projects
Wikimedia Foundation
Foundation public relations
Foundation public relations
Wikimedia Outreach
Wikimedia outreach wiki
Wikimedia outreach wiki
Wikimania
The International Conference
The International Conference
Wikimedia Mailservices
Wikimedia mailing lists
Wikimedia mailing lists
Wikistats
Wikimedia statistics
Wikimedia statistics
Technical and development projects
MediaWiki
MediaWiki software documentation
MediaWiki software documentation
Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs for high volume use
APIs for high volume use
Wikitech
Wikimedia technical documentation
Wikimedia technical documentation
Phabricator
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects
Test Wikipedia
For testing software changes
For testing software changes
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis