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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:
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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)
- Dynamic dates -- entered on /(2003-06-23|2003 June 23|June 23, 2003|23 June 2003)/
- deletion management redesign
- Wikipedia lexer - new! 2003-05-20
- Wikipedia Text Syntax (at LDC's wiki) new! 2003-05-14
- Intermediate solution for interlanguage links
- 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?
- User details special page: Making it easier to create sysops
- Cache strategy: on speeding up the server
- Wikimedia - extending the Wikipedia family
- Help us find a Wikipedia mascot!
- Help to clean up this page at Main Page/temp!
- Paper Wikipedia - and underlying Wikipedia DTD
- Wikipedia on CD/DVD
- wikipedia meetup (12 May!)
- 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
- Music markup -- inline music notation? (proposed)
- Wikipediatlas -- inline map generation (proposed) - with spacetime DTD
- Wikitax -- a radically altered wiki markup (proposed) - with ideology
- Image pages - better way to caption & position them. also applied to tables
- header markup
- 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)
- Talk_media There are 2 main talk media: Talk: pages, and mailing lists. This article addresses relavant topics to this such as: Language issues, providing structure to increase productivity, possibly combining all talk media into one..
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
- Discussion about using domains within wikipedia
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
- usability phase I or II
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]
- 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
- 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
Wikipedia building
Talks
- Disarmament crisis of March 2003
- A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian
- Markup vs MetaForming
- AntonioMartin
- 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
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
- 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)
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
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)