Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta
The MetaProject to overhaul meta (WPOM) seeks to streamline Meta by eliminating irrelevant content, building infrastructure, rewriting documentation, and organising its content in an efficient, intuitive manner. The final goal is to reinvite users previously alienated by confusion and make Meta useable and enjoyable to all contributors. Join us on IRC at #wikimedia on freenode.
This project was started in 2006 but was abandoned. It was restarted in June 2008 following an email from Anthere and a proposal from guillom.
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[edit] About the MetaProject
[edit] Purpose
Help building our inventory of the content on Meta.
[edit] Goals
These are the general objectives and tasks the project has undertaken.
- Organize categories and categorise every article, see Special:UncategorizedCategories
- Delete irrelevant content and merge pages as needed
- Build infrastructure where missing
- Move documentation to mediawiki.org and rewrite. See Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org for more info.
- Move most images to Commons, delete copyvios
- Determine naming conventions and move articles and categories accordingly
- Build multilingual infrastructure, keeping away from English bias while recognizing that the majority of documents on Meta are in English
- Update and re-design the Main Page
[edit] Sub-projects
[edit] Structure
The inventory will help us identify the content hosted on Meta. It has been suggested to structure this content in namespaces and subpages. The following namespaces are being discussed :
Historical:for valuable historical content, to be kept as archives;Translation:as a workspace for all translations requests;Maintenance:for cross-wiki stuff : Spam blacklist, Steward requests, SWMT, etc.
[edit] Tasks
These are specific tasks that need to be addressed.
- Build an infrastructure to Meta.
- Make a category tree.
- Categorize every single article on Meta.
- If you can't figure out what an article should be categorized as, put it Category:Uncategorized.
- Make help pages for the infrastructure (how to browse, etc.)
- Streamline deletion process, preventing valuable historical context from being deleted
- Move userspace pages out of main categories
- General standards and style guidelines
- Clearer image policy ; see also meta:EDP
[edit] Participants
(see also the old list)
- guillom 11:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Herby talk thyme 11:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Cometstyles 14:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Cbrown1023 talk 17:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Andre (talk) 00:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Monobi (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- —Sean Whitton / 18:33, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
- Cirt (talk) 00:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
- —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 19:48, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Templates
- Cleanup: {{cleanup}}, use Category:Cleanup and see Meta:Cleanup
- Outdated: {{outdated}} and Category:Outdated for pages that need to be updated
- Historical: {{historical}} and Category:Archives for articles that are kept for historical purposes
- Looks useless: {{Looks useless}} and Category:Looks useless, slightly weaker than speedy
- Speedy delete: {{delete}} and Category:Deleteme
- Others to delete: {{rfd}} if they meet Meta:Deletion policy
