Small wikis need a lot more administrative work per articles than larger wikis. If there isn't any clear real reason then simply don't make a new wiki.
John phoebe ayers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kim<ee...@blueoxen.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Samuel Klein<meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> * Could you please help update the meta page on the process with your >>> thoughts and ideas? [[m:Strategic planning 2009]] What's your current >>> rough timeline for the coming 12 months? >> We'll start seeding Meta with what we know (and probably quite a bit >> of what we don't) today, and I'll look forward to reading other >> people's thoughts. >> >> On creating a new Wiki: I hear you. I'm constantly fighting Wiki-creep >> with some of my other communities and clients. Creating new Wikis is >> often knee-jerk, and knee-jerk is usually not the best thing. >> >> There's a tradeoff between starting with a blank slate and the need to >> re-establish a community and a set of norms. My gut tells me that a >> blank slate is better for this project, but I'm open to other >> feedback. > > Re: creating a new wiki -- > I talked to Eugene about this briefly last week and agreed at the time > that a new wiki would be useful (for starting the project fresh with a > blank slate) -- but the more I think about it, and reading Angela's > and Mike's posts, sticking to meta for now seems like the best route. > It's practical, as there is already a community of spam fighters, > translators and template builders ready to go, and many of the people > who will be interested in strategic planning are already there (and in > many cases are already active meta editors); and it's fitting with the > role of meta, which is meant to be a multi-lingual place to discuss > the Foundation ... which sounds like strategic planning to me. And I > suspect many of the ideas that will be brought up in the planning > process will have already been discussed somewhere on meta at some > point, and can be linked to and integrated in easily from there. > > Anyway, an open to-do list for things that need doing -- whether it's > building out meta or anything else -- would be great too, to help give > guidance to people who want to help out but don't quite know what's > going on. > > -- Phoebe > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l