On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:18 PM, SounderBruce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, cascadia.wiki seems to have gone offline. Might want to find some way
> of restoring it.
>

Instead of having a completely disconnected wiki that requires ongoing
maintenance, I'd strongly encourage either:

1) Use meta-wiki, with subpages.
I.e. we already have these 9 pages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=prefix%3ACascadia
There are many benefits to sharing a [watchlist, single-login,
pre-existing templates/gadgets/etc, large community of janitors and
interested by-passers, etc].

2) If a separate wiki is strongly needed (? reasons should be
detailed), then use a SUL-connected sub-domain like some other
affiliates do:
nyc.wikimedia.org -- nl.wikimedia.org -- pl.wikimedia.org --
ru.wikimedia.org -- etc

I know there are a few reasons for why a group might potentially
decide to use a completely disconnected wiki (complete
identity-separation, private sections of the site), but I don't think
any of those apply to Cascadia (or not at a benefit-level that offsets
all the drawbacks).

In summary: creating a new wiki for something, is often an
anti-pattern; let's just use meta?

quiddity / nick

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