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Welcome to the
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
(often shortened to
Meta-Wiki
or simply
Meta
), a
wiki
for coordinating
amongst the Wikimedia
projects.
Purpose
Meta serves three distinct roles, which are all closely related but often involve different subsets of users.
Discussion and formulation of
Wikimedia projects
, in particular
policy
discussion relevant across projects, such as
open-content licensing
. The central venue for discussion is the
Wikimedia Forum
. Some high-level discussions, held mainly in 2009, were split off to
Strategy Wiki
A place for interlingual (cross-wiki) and international coordination
concerning the Wikimedia projects and the
Wikimedia movement
in general, including discussion in languages other than English. This includes
requests and proposals
(for pan-Wikimedia or other wikis),
technical changes
translations
and
news
, and the description, documentation, and discussion of real-life activities and facts related to the
Wikimedia Foundation
and
affiliates
. See also
reports
events
outreach
, and
grants
A forum for
personal essays
about Wikimedia projects
. Because these are usually not delivered from a
neutral point of view
, they should be summarized on neutral
issues
pages from
multiple points of view
using formats such as
TIPAESA
or its subset
IPA
. There is a degree of freedom in determining what is related to Wikimedia projects, which makes Meta also a
meatball
wiki of sorts, discussing such matters as wiki culture and patterns. Documentation of MediaWiki is mainly excluded now (see below). This role includes more formal
research
and related discussion.
The
categories
provide a big-picture representation of Meta's content.
What Meta is not
Main article:
Meta:What Meta is not
A disposal site for uncorrectable articles from different Wikipedias
If you want to build your own wiki, check out the
list of wiki software
on Wikipedia.
If you're looking for a wiki-based community, check out
other wiki communities
on Wikipedia, or MeatballWiki's
community list
If you're looking for free webspace, you can find out more about that at
web hosting service
on Wikipedia.
A place to describe the
MediaWiki
software. The software has its own wiki at
MediaWiki.org
. Content and pages such as these should be
transferred
Community
It has often been discussed whether Meta has a community.
What's sure is that it doesn't have a community of its own, separate from the communities of the
Wikimedia projects
: as someone said, «a meta-project—existing
for
and
about
the other Wikimedia wikis, not as a content project to itself—a community of communities, rather than its own little island community».
This also means that many discussions, processes and other activities happen on Meta, with different participants and people in charge (if any)—for instance, among many, some
Wikimedia committees
, the
stewards
, the WMF staff for
grants
—: none of them, and all of them, is Meta. Meta is the space and the tool for
their participants
to achieve their objectives, not an actor in them; and even less a power over them.
Strictly speaking, however, there
is
a community specific to Meta: it's a loose group of people regularly active in some or many such activities (especially as "gardeners"), who care about Meta serving the purpose above, and who are more likely to intervene to ensure it does.
"Metawikian" is a term also sometimes used, to indicate a member of the specific "Meta community", that is the community of Meta regulars who are more often active on Meta, for instance as contributors to its content pages or as facilitators of other discussions and processes.
Origins
Meta-Wiki was first created as "Meta-Wikipedia" in November 2001 to make the English Wikipedia less cluttered, by moving all meta-content (content about the Wikipedia website and its users), as opposed to actual content (encyclopedia articles), to a new wiki. Since its upgrade to Wikipedia's custom
MediaWiki
software, Meta has become a multilingual discussion forum used by all Wikimedia language communities. As the number of
Wikimedia projects
and
translations
increased, so too did Meta's scope. Meta comprises 163,952 articles. Many of the older pages here are still worded as being specific to Wikipedia, but arguably many now apply to all Wikimedia projects.
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– language competence of Meta users
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and the Wikimedia projects.
Notes
Adapted from
Pathoschild, 29 September 2011
Adapted from
Anthere, 29 March 2006
; see also
MeatBall:CommunityMember
for general principles.
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