Meta talk:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

This project was restarted in June 2008. All previous discussions were archived. guillom 11:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup

I've done quite a bit of cleanup; I hope I haven't removed anything that was still relevant. Feel free to amend the page. guillom 12:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Historical content

See also User:Seven-League Bot/Historical content, that I had started last year. Needless to say, if a bot is needed (and it will probably be), I'd be glad to propose my help. guillom 12:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Categories

In order to tidy up we need to get materials into sensible categories? So maybe we need to take a close look at Special:Categories :) To me this is almost as much in need of an overhaul as Meta - whatever else some focus here can only help? Maybe try and come up with some high level cats & then organise what there is into it - should there be cats equivalent to possibly new namespaces for example? Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Having looked through it a bit yesterday one thing that could be usefully done here is to run through the "redlink" cats. Most probably should be in some other cat somewhere (or if there are enough members create the cat)? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:21, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Update: Majorly told me about this project - I think it is a very worthwhile endeavor. I did a bit of work cleaning up and sorting stuff in Category:Essays. Cirt (talk) 00:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Some days ago I've categorized or recategorized several hundreds of pages: As of 12:52, 25 July 2010 there are 1890 uncategorized pages; as of 06:00, 4 August 2010, there are 1316, of which only 65 are non-subpages (certainly to be categorized) and 503 are subpages of pages with less than 10 uncategorized subpages. There were pages without categories since 2001! Now we should check the most populated categories and the wanted categories to make content more accessible and to know better what content there's on Meta. --Nemo 20:39, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

New namespaces & archives

Previous discussions: Meta:Babel/Archives/2008-03#Meta_namespaces

I can see archived pages that aren't relevant to the name they are occupying in the current iteration of Meta moving to a subpage of the Meta:Archive. This is an issue on en:wp as well where ther aer interesting historical pages that get regularly deleted b/c people no longer like them or want them to be active.

For old pages on a topic that may be revisited in the future, properly named according to our current Meta:style guide, they could be part of the Archive category but remain in the main namespace -- when a new impementation of the idea came around the page would be revived, would retain its history of old ideas and discussion, &c.

A separate translation namespace makes sense for a few reasons; pages-for-translation dominate all other pages on the wiki in number, making stats and searching more difficult.

For Maintenance pages, as on other wikis, I would make these part of the Meta: project namespace... not sure why we should treat them differently here. -- sj | help translate |+ 00:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Meta:Archive doesn't exist yet, but Meta:Historical already does. About maintenance page such as SRP or SRCU, they are in the main namespace because they have a cross-wiki purpose, whereas Meta:Changing username is specific to meta-wiki. That's why it was suggested to have a specific namespace for cross-wiki, non-meta-specific maintenance such as the spam blacklist or requests to stewards. Maintenance: may not be the best choice, perhaps Crosswiki: would be better, I prefer Maintenance: though. guillom 08:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Where this went off-course

For me, this project page went off course in the lede paragraph at exactly this point: "Join us on IRC at #wikimedia on freenode." I can't think of a worse place to formally reconfigure or overhaul a WMF site. -- Thekohser 15:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)