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Meta-Wikipedia is a wiki meant to work alongside the main Wikipedia project. It 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
If you're looking for a place to post encyclopedia articles, head over to the main project sites:
- Afrikaans - Araby - Castellano - Català - Dansk - Deutsch - English - Esperanto - Euskara - Français - Frysk - Hanyu - Hrvatosrbska - Italiano - Ivrit - Nederlands - Magyar - Nihongo - Norsk - Polska - Português - Russkiy - Slovensko -Svenska
Experiment with editing in the Meta-Wikipedia Sandbox!
Wikipedia3 (tentative name for the current wikipedia codebase) Wikipedia4 (just questions, for now, what should this include?)
current issues
(a rough digest of what's topical on the mailing list & elsewhere)
- tracking all Wikipedia self-references!
- Paper Wikipedia - and underlying Wikipedia DTD
- wikipedia meetup
- Wikipedia client - offline reader and editor (proposed) important for increasing Wikipedia presence in countries with low broadband penetration and high dial-up internet costs
- Markup extensions
- Math Markup -- inline TeX support for math being implemented now
- Music markup -- inline music notation? (proposed)
- Wikipediatlas -- inline map generation (proposed) - with spacetime DTD
- Wikitax -- a radically altered wiki markup (proposed) - with ideology
- table syntax and simplified tables (proposed)
- Interlingual issues:
- cleaner topic segregation of the mailing lists: Mailing list-s
- Thoughts on language integration - merge of database
- Ideas on how to write about--and how not to write about--film (KQ and whoever cares to respond)
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
- Regarding URLs and change of URL for English pedia
- What to do with www.wikipedia.org
- The provisional portal of Wikipedia
- SVG image support
- Protected pages considered harmful
- Empty page page
- Recent Changes redesign
- Browser issues with Wikipedia
Sister project proposals
- Wiktionary: a dictionary project now online: http://wiktionary.org
- Wikisaurus: a thesaurus project
- Wikipediatlas - and underlying spacetime DTD
- 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
English usage
- vocabulary - both an educational and an ethical issue
- defining vocabulary - the core glossary, should coordinate with [1]
- trademark - use of terms which are claimed as property e.g. brand names, and degree to which wikipedia should respect such 'ownership'
- Use of the present tense, and overuse of the past tense
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
Interlingual coordination
- 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
- Wikipedia software upgrade status
- International logo
- International promotion material -- new!
- Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities
- Mailing list-s
- Wikipedias and cross-fertilisation
- Supporting an English Dialect - Cockney Rhyming Slang Wikipedia
Characters and contributors
- Various Wikipedian essays
- How I became a Wikipedian
- A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian
- Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
- Markup vs MetaForming
- AntonioMartin Autograph collecting do's and dont's
- Larry Sanger
Wikipedia-specific issues
Not tied to the etiquette, ethics, community, or culture questions, just things we truly have to decide in order to get along here and now.
- The ideal Wikipedia board - to decide governance issues like these:
- Wikipedia board manual
- recruiting editors
- recruiting authors
- Wikipedia4 features
- Wikipedia4 timeline
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
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)
People, places, times
- How to write non-American names - see also person DTD
- Date formats for language linking
- Locales for the Wikipedia Software
- Dates in Wikipedia - see also spacetime DTD
- U.S. vs. US - see also ecoregion DTD
- "Now" and "currently" : How to say what you knew and when you knew it. Right now (July 31, 2002) I think that wikipedians should datestamp their references to current items So that the information shows its age. -TomCerul
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
- Search Engine
- Wikipedia cloning project
- Discussion on business models and organizational charters applicable to large free wikis
- GFDL Workshop
- SJKs Wikipedia-Specific License proposal
- Logo suggestions
- Wikipedia Client
- Wikipedia T-shirts (now available in Esperanto!)
- Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor (BryceHarrington)
Where it actually is
- History of Wikipedia (Wikipedia and where it's been)
- Best debates about Wikipedia articles
- 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
- configuration management
- Wikipedia Governance - Jimbo Wales (Response to 24's governance)
Wikipedia hackfest
- How to become a Wikipedia hacker
- Database queries on Wikipedia
- Text in software
- Math Markup
- RDF spool
- Wiki markup tables -- proposals
- Wiki markup syntax - see Wikipedia DTD
- meta.wikipedia.org technical issues
Wikipedia humor
- Logo suggestions--humorous logos
- Wikipedia Anti-rules (some very productive Wikipedians)
- Wikipedia haiku:Making fun of Britannica
- Bushisms
- Gore-ism
Texts about Wiki projects
- 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
- 24's contributions - Natural point of view, governance, etc.