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Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Meta-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Meta-Wiki''' or simply '''Meta'''), a [[Special:MyLanguage/Wiki|wiki]] for coordinating [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement|amongst the Wikimedia]] projects.
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== Purpose ==
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Meta serves three distinct roles, which are all closely related but often involve different subsets of users.
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# '''Discussion and formulation of [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]]''', in particular [[Special:MyLanguage/Policy|policy]] discussion relevant across projects, such as [[Special:MyLanguage/Category:Open content license issues|open-content licensing]]. The central venue for discussion is the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Forum|Wikimedia Forum]]. Some high-level discussions, held mainly in 2009, were split off to [[strategy:|Strategy Wiki]].
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# '''A place for interlingual (cross-wiki) and international coordination''' concerning the Wikimedia projects and the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]] in general, including discussion in languages other than English. This includes [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Requests and proposals#Meta pages|requests]] (for pan-Wikimedia or other wikis), [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Babylon|translations]] and [[Special:MyLanguage/Goings-on|news]], and the description, documentation, and discussion of real-life activities and facts related to the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] and [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia affiliation models|affiliates]]. See also [[Special:MyLanguage/Reports|reports]], [[Special:MyLanguage/Events|events]], [[outreach:|outreach]], and [[Special:MyLanguage/Grants:Index|grants]].
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# '''A forum for [[Special:MyLanguage/Category:Essays|personal essays]] about Wikimedia projects'''. Because these are usually not delivered from a [[w:project:neutral point of view|neutral point of view]], they should be summarized on neutral [[Special:MyLanguage/Category:Issues|issues]] pages from [[Special:MyLanguage/Multiple point of view|multiple points of view]] using formats such as [[Special:MyLanguage/Time, issue, position, argument, evidence, source, authority|TIPAESA]] or its subset [[Special:MyLanguage/IPA|IPA]]. There is a degree of freedom in determining what is related to Wikimedia projects, which makes Meta also a [[meatball:|meatball]] wiki of sorts, discussing such matters as wiki culture and patterns. Documentation of MediaWiki is mainly excluded now (see below). This role includes more formal [[Special:MyLanguage/Research:Index|research]] and related discussion.
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The [[Special:MyLanguage/Category:Categories|categories]] provide a big-picture representation of Meta's content.
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== What Meta is not ==
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#A disposal site for uncorrectable articles from the different Wikipedias
#* If you want to build your own wiki, check out the [[w:List of wiki software|list of wiki software]] on Wikipedia.
#* If you're looking for a wiki-based community, check out [[w:Comparison of wiki farms|other wiki communities]] on Wikipedia, or MeatballWiki's [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?back=CategoryOnlineCommunity community list].
#* If you're looking for free webspace, you can find out more about that at [[w:Web hosting service|web hosting service]] on Wikipedia.
# A place to describe the [[Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. The software has its own wiki at [[:mw:|MediaWiki.org]]. Content and pages such as these should be [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org|transferred]].
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== Community ==
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It has often been discussed whether Meta has a community.
What's sure is that it doesn't have a community of its own, separate from the communities of the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]]: as someone said, «a meta-project—existing ''for'' and ''about'' the other Wikimedia wikis, not as a content project to itself—a community of communities, rather than its own little island community».
</div><ref><span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Adapted from [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&diff=prev&oldid=2941560 Pathoschild, 29 September 2011].</span></ref>

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This also means that many discussions, processes and other activities happen on Meta, with different participants and people in charge (if any)—for instance, among many, some [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia committees|Wikimedia committees]], the [[Special:MyLanguage/stewards|stewards]], the WMF staff for [[Special:MyLanguage/Grants|grants]]—: none of them, and all of them, is Meta. Meta is the space and the tool for ''their participants'' to achieve their objectives, not an actor in them; and even less a power over them.
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Strictly speaking, however, there ''is'' a community specific to Meta: it's a loose group of people regularly active in some or many such activities (especially as "gardeners"), who care about Meta serving the purpose above, and who are more likely to intervene to ensure it does.
</div><ref><span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Adapted from [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/6652 Anthere, 29 March 2006]; see also [[MeatBall:CommunityMember|MeatBall:CommunityMember]] for general principles.</span></ref>

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"Metawikian" is a term also sometimes used, to indicate a member of the specific "Meta community", that is the community of Meta regulars who are more often active on Meta, for instance as contributors to its content pages or as facilitators of other discussions and processes.
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== Origins ==
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Meta-Wiki was first created as "Meta-Wikipedia" in November 2001 to make the English Wikipedia less cluttered, by moving all meta-content (content about the Wikipedia website and its users), as opposed to actual content (encyclopedia articles), to a new wiki. Since its upgrade to Wikipedia's custom [[Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software, Meta has become a multilingual discussion forum used by all Wikimedia language communities. As the number of [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]] and [[Special:MyLanguage/translation|translations]] increased, so too did Meta's scope. Meta comprises {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. Many of the older pages here are still worded as being specific to Wikipedia, but arguably many now apply to all Wikimedia projects.
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== Meta policies ==
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* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Inclusion policy|Meta:Inclusion policy]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Deletion policy|Meta:Deletion policy]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Policies and guidelines|Policies and guidelines]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Privacy policy|Privacy policy]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Stewards policy|Steward policies]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/New project policy|New project policy]] (historical)
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== See also ==
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* [[Special:MyLanguage/Goings-on|Goings-on]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Categories|Meta:Categories]]&nbsp;– introductory page for browsing
* [[stats:wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMETA.htm#zeitgeist|Meta's Zeitgeist]] can give a clue about the main activities of any month (only main namespace, although talk could be more indicative)
* [[Special:MyLanguage/User language|Meta:Babel templates]]&nbsp;– language competence of Meta users
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Cleanup|Meta:Cleanup]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Requests for deletion|Meta:Requests for deletion]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Requests for deletion#Requests for undeletion|Meta:Requests for undeletions]]
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Project portals|Project portals]]&nbsp;– a list of Wikimedia project portals
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] and the Wikimedia projects.
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