Meta:MetaProject to overhaul Meta/Inventory
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Former uses for Meta :
- Seed wiki for new languages and projects: Now on incubator wiki.
- MediaWiki documentation and extensions: Being moved to mediawiki.org.
Present uses for Meta are:
- Work wiki for foundation and chapter affairs
- Projects (justifies a namespace?)
- Proposals for the creation of & closure of projects
- Project statistics. Pages, admin numbers etc
- Development of projects such as logo changes
- cross-wiki maintenance (Spam blacklist, Steward requests, OTRS etc.)
- Global policies for Oversight, CheckUser etc
- Central wiki for steward actions like global blocks, the steward elections, and other steward-related pages. Global actions and cross-wiki rights changes go in the log here, not on other local wikis. Also, it's the place to request help from stewards.
- Aspects such as Arbitration & RFC type stuff?
- Pywikipediabot documentation, etc.
- Translations
- Workspace for Wikimedia Foundation translations
- Translation of essays and global help documents
- Quasi personal material including essays on Wikimedia culture, humor, non-Wikimedia projects or concepts and philosophical discussions - MeatBall-type stuff, but of local interest
- Historical documents that get the {{historical}} tag and hence Category:Archives.
- "Help" aspects of Meta (as in
Help:
namespace), including translations. Formerly Help page translations where in other namespaces, such as Hilfe:, Aide:.