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Contents 1 More pictures, clearer community focus 2 Pagina principal pro Interlingua 3 Selected Commons file on main page 4 "latest news" or "notifications" ? 5 Closure of Incubator

More pictures, clearer community focus

Meta is sometimes viewed as a 'coordination wiki' by people who mainly edit other wikis. I would say it's more of a community-wide wiki, with part for coordination, part for communication and news, part for outreach and new-project support. It has its own community around developing shared resources, defining roles and tools that can help all wikis, and keeping an eye on the overall mission of the foundation. [in particular, someone was asking why Meta had its own checkusers / whether stewards who were admins here could use stewards powers here]

Reviewing the 'requests for accounts on the WMFwiki' today I was wondering about finding better ways to maintain that site, or as Anthere suggested a while back, finding a cleaner way to merge it into Meta. I still think merging whatever isn't directly related to the office staff is a good idea. Looking at the evolving sidebar here, with its focus on news, communication, translation, a wikimedia forum, and events only encourages those thoughts.

To start addressing both issues, we could use better images and media from the projects here on this main page! And an update on featured cross-wiki projects as well... -- sj | help translate |+ 04:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I think one image is enough. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 05:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

We could perhaps feature content from all the different projects in some way? Give their latest news? There are so many things that could be done with the main page. Majorly ^talk 14:34, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

That's a great idea. It is meta, after all... now if only there were a way to do this with transwiki templates... -- sj | help translate |+

Pagina principal pro Interlingua

Duo requestas pro un administrator:

1. In le interfacie de MediaWiki in interlingua, le traduction de "Main Page" ha essite modificate. Le resultato es que le interfacie in interlingua a Meta ha un pagina initial non existente. Pro remediar iste problema, per favor renomina Frontispicio a Pagina principal.
2. Le version existente es obsolete e incomplete. Per favor substitue lo per mi nove traduction del pagina principal anglese, a User:McDutchie/Pagina principal.

Gratias – McDutchie 01:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done :-) (You can also edit it now too, I reduced the protection to autoconfirm. Thanks for updating this!) Cbrown1023 talk 01:28, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Selected Commons file on main page

Much as I enjoy selecting images from Commons to be on the Meta front page, we should either find some regular system for choosing a file or abandon the concept of "selected Commons file". The last six weeks I've added a file based on my personal preferences, and even if I've added them one at the time and waited until saturday/sunday with adding a new one noone else has joined in. Finn Rindahl 23:19, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

This time noone added an image until monday (and then again added by me). If noone objects I'm removing "selected commons" file from the main page at the end of this week. Finn Rindahl 11:17, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Personally (and this may sound like I'm being boring), I never thought this was particularly appropriate. Commons is just one of our projects, and Meta's main page shouldn't really be expending space like that. We're for documentation and co-ordination. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:31, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I'd say go ahead. ...Aurora... 11:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed. If anyone feels this should be readded, an approved method for actually selecting images should be agreed upon first. Finn Rindahl 14:16, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

"latest news" or "notifications" ?

On 6 september 2007, "Latest News" was changed into "Notifications" : diff

I think I'd rather revert it back to "Latest News" or perhaps "Announcements". "Notifications" sounds a bit too bureaucratic and like some superior people are telling some inferior people some kinds of unpleasant things (like a deadline to pay a bill or something).

My biggest concern is that people should feel freeer to use this part of the page for more diverse kinds of announcements, without the fear of not having the authority to write here.

Teofilo 08:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Closure of Incubator

Please move somewhere else if unappropiated, I didn't know where else to go. Some user created this: [1] . I don't know if he did it too, but the Incubator Wikipedia test pages are blocked. See for example : [2] Reads this:

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

This wiki is closed; see m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Wikimedia Incubator.

You can view and copy the source of this page:

How can a wiki be blocked if not proper discussion has been held? And it's the second time this month. Please help the Incubator community.--Fluence 20:22, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind; solved. Please remove these comments as needed.--Fluence 20:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC)