Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta/Inventory

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Former uses for Meta :

1. Seed wiki for new languages and projects: Now on incubator wiki.
2. MediaWiki documentation and extensions: Being moved to mediawiki.org.

Present uses for Meta are:

1. Work wiki for foundation and chapter affairs
   • Wikimania
2. 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
3. cross-wiki maintenance (Spam blacklist, Steward requests, OTRS etc.)
   • Global policies for Oversight, CheckUser etc
   • Aspects such as Arbitration & RFC type stuff?
   • Pywikipediabot documentation, etc.
4. Translations
   • Workspace for Wikimedia Foundation translations
   • Translation of essays and global help documents
5. Quasi personal material including essays on Wikimedia culture and humor - MeatBall-type stuff, but of local interest
6. Historical documents that get the {{historical}} tag and hence Category:Archives.
7. "Help" aspects of Meta (as in Help: namespace) plus language version such as Hilfe:, Aide:.