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'''Welcome to [[<tvar name="m-about">Special:MyLanguage/Meta:About</tvar>|Meta-Wiki]]''', the global community site for the [[<tvar name="wmf">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation</tvar>|Wikimedia Foundation's]] [[<tvar name="wm-projects">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects</tvar>|projects]] and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.
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'''Meta-Wikipedia''' is a wiki meant to work alongside the main [[en:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] project. It can be used for several ''Wikipedia-related'' purposes:
Other meta-focused wikis such as [[<tvar name=outreach-wiki>outreach:</tvar>|Wikimedia Outreach]] are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia [[<tvar name="maillists">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists/Overview</tvar>|mailing lists]] (particularly '''[[<tvar name="wikimedia-l">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia mailing list</tvar>|wikimedia-l]]''', with its low-traffic equivalent [[<tvar name="WikimediaAnnounce">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia Announcements mailing list</tvar>|WikimediaAnnounce]]), [[<tvar name="irc">Special:MyLanguage/IRC</tvar>|IRC channels]] on Libera, individual wikis of [[<tvar name="affiliates">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement affiliates</tvar>|Wikimedia affiliates]], and other places.
* Meta-project: Discuss and formulate project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies; organize events, contents; philosophical discussions
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* Meta-content: Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files
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* Meta-code: Coordinate the development process
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If you're looking for a place to post encyclopedia articles, head over to the main project sites:
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: [http://af.wikipedia.com/ Afrikaans] - [http://ar.wikipedia.com/ ‮العربية‬ (Araby)] - [http://bs.wikipedia.org/ Bosanski] - [http://ca.wikipedia.com/ Català] - [http://cs.wikipedia.org/ Česká] - [http://da.wikipedia.org/ Dansk] - [http://de.wikipedia.org/ Deutsch] - [http://et.wikipedia.com/ Eesti] - '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/ English]''' - [http://es.wikipedia.org/ Español] - [http://eo.wikipedia.org/ Esperanto] - [http://eu.wikipedia.com/ Euskara] - [http://fr.wikipedia.org/ Français] - [http://fy.wikipedia.com/ Frysk] - [http://ko.wikipedia.org/ 한국어 (Hangukeo)] - [http://hr.wikipedia.org/ Hrvatski] - [http://ia.wikipedia.com/ Interlingua] - [http://it.wikipedia.com/ Italiano] - [http://he.wikipedia.com/ Ivrit] - [http://la.wikipedia.com/ Latina] - [http://hu.wikipedia.com/ Magyar] - [http://nl.wikipedia.org/ Nederlands] - [http://ja.wikipedia.org/ 日本語 (Nihongo)] - [http://no.wikipedia.com/ Norsk] - [http://pl.wikipedia.org/ Polski] - [http://pt.wikipedia.com/ Português] - [http://ru.wikipedia.org/ Русский (Russkiy)] - [http://sl.wikipedia.com/ Slovensko] - [http://fi.wikipedia.com/ Suomi] - [http://sr.wikipedia.org/ Српски (Srpski)] - [http://sv.wikipedia.org/ Svenska] - [http://tr.wikipedia.org/ Türkçe] - [http://zh.wikipedia.org/ 中文 (Zhongwen)]
<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Mission|<translate><!--T:1--> Mission</translate>]]</li>
<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects|<translate><!--T:2--> Projects</translate>]]<br> ([[Special:MyLanguage/Complete list of Wikimedia projects|<translate><!--T:3--> complete list</translate>]])</li>
Experiment with editing in the Meta-Wikipedia [[Sandbox]]!
<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Research:Index|<translate><!--T:4--> Research</translate>]]</li>
<DIV align=right>[[wikipedia:Requests for deletion| Requests for deletion]]</div>
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[[Wikipedia3]] (tentative name for the current wikipedia codebase)
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[[Wikipedia4]] (just questions, for now, what should this include?)
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== current issues ==
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(a rough digest of what's topical on the [[w:Wikipedia-L|mailing list]] & elsewhere)
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* [[deletion management redesign]]
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* [http://www.piclab.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Wikipedia_Text_Syntax Wikipedia Text Syntax] (at LDC's wiki) <font color=red>new! 2003-05-14</font>
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* [[Intermediate solution for interlanguage links]]
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* [[What to do with www.wiktionary.org]]
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* [[Quality of articles]]
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* [[permission grant extent]] - are we allowed to use all content under the GFDL? or just text?
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* [[User details special page]]: Making it easier to create sysops
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* [[Cache strategy]]: on speeding up the server
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* [[Wikimedia]] - extending the Wikipedia family
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* Help us find a [[Wikipedia mascot]]!
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* [[Paper Wikipedia]] - and underlying [[Wikipedia DTD]]
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* [[Wikipedia on CD/DVD]]
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* [[wikipedia meetup]] (12 May!)
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* [[Wikipedia client]] - ''offline reader and editor (proposed)'' important for increasing Wikipedia presence in countries with low broadband penetration and high dial-up internet costs
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* Markup extensions
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** [[Music markup]] -- ''inline music notation? (proposed)''
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** [[Wikipediatlas]] -- ''inline map generation (proposed) - with [[spacetime DTD]]''
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*** [[Geospatial reference]]s
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** [[Wikitax]] -- ''a radically altered wiki markup (proposed) - with [[simple ideology of Wikitax|ideology]]''
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* [[Image pages]] - better way to caption & position them. also applied to tables
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* Interlingual issues:
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** cleaner topic segregation of the mailing lists: [[Mailing list-s]]
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** [[Thoughts on language integration]] - merge of database
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* [[Ideas on how to write about--and how not to write about--film]] (KQ and whoever cares to respond)
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* [[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..
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== Editing, counting, naming ==
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:[[Article count reform]]: Let's build a better counter for all Wikipedias.
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:[[Math Markup]] -- ''inline TeX support for math''
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:[[Credibility]]
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== Core issues: etiquette, consensus, permission, vandals, ethics, morals ==
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:[[etiquette]]
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:[[Wikipedia vandalism]]
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:[[Uploads being abused]]
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:[[consensus]] and implications of its definition for all of the core issues
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:[[Simple View of Ethics and Morals]]
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:[[Should talk pages be used for debating?]]
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:[[Should Wikipedia Use Profanity]]? ([[Stephen Gilbert]] and others)
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:[[Freedom of choosing a username debate]]
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:[[Standard email texts]] for asking permission to use texts or images
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== usability and user interface ==
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*[[Regarding URLs]] and change of URL for English pedia
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*[[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 <font color=red>now online:</font> 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 [http://wiktionary.org]
:[[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 ==
:[[Nine leverage points]]
==Talks==
:[[Disarmament crisis of March 2003]]
:[[A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian]]
:[[User:Rlee0001/Markup vs MetaForming|Markup vs MetaForming]]
:[[User:AntonioMartin|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]] [[Wikipedia4 timeline|timeline]] (proposed, very tenative)
:[[How to build Wikipedia|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]]
:[[talk:SunirShah|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 [http://noosphere.cc 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==
:[[POV articles moved from the encyclopedia]]
== 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''' ===
:pages at http://sep11.wikipedia.org
:[[Please help build 911 Attack memorial]]
== 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 [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?back=CategoryOnlineCommunity community list]. If you're looking for free webspace, you can find a list [http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/ here]. If you want to build your own wiki, try [http://www.seedwiki.com SeedWiki] for a free wiki or check out the [[Wiki:WikiEngines|list of wiki engines]].
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