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Meta, or Wikimedia's Meta wiki, at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ meta.wikimedia.org], is a wiki-based web site that is auxiliary to the Wikimedia projects. First created as ''Meta-Wikipedia'' in November 2001, It now serves several distinct roles: # Discussion and formulation of the List of Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, and in particular policy discussion. # A forum for personal essays that are not necessarily Wikipedia:Neutral point of view # A place to organise and prepare content, to discuss interlanguage link co-ordination issues # A place to coordinate the development process. # A help guide to using the MediaWiki software. Meta currently serves as one of the major avenues of discussion for Wikipedia:Wikipedian, the others being the Wikipedia:mailing lists, the m:IRC channels, and the talk pages of individual articles and users. Originally focused on the English language version of Wikipedia, Meta has, since its upgrade to Wikipedia's custom MediaWiki software, become a multilingual discussion forum used by all Wikimedia language communities. ==See also== * Wikipedia:Canonicalization Wikipedia multilingual coordination

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Should this be merged with Meta-Wikipedia? --User:Brion VIBBER 08:26 Nov 3, 2002 (UTC) *sheepish grin* Yeah, I'm fixing it. (Which would be a lot easier if the response time hadn't just slowed down a bunch!) — User:Toby Bartels 08:31 Nov 3, 2002 (UTC) Which name is best? "Metapedia" is also used by EL. --User:Maveric149 Looking around the sites, it seems that "Metapedia" is only an abbreviation, and that I was just an ignoramus for not knowing that from the very beginning ^_^. But mav's report of EL's practice just clinches it: "Meta-Wikipedia" is the way to go. — User:Toby Bartels 08:59 Nov 3, 2002 (UTC) ---- Ugh! this is a perfect example of rules run amok. The link to Meta-Wikipedia isn't an external link to some web page ''about'' the subject of the article; it's a link to the subject of the article ''itself''! People expect to external links down at the bottom to be merely recommended additional reading, but when you're looking at an article about a web site, then one of the basic facts about the site that you expect to see up front is the URL, just as you expect birth dates for people and populations for cities there. The link should be moved back into the body of the article. — User:Toby Bartels 18:19 Nov 3, 2002 (UTC) ---- Shouldn't this be in the Wikipedia: namespace? : This should be an NPOV article about Metapedia as a web site, no different from an article about any other web site. There's ''also'' Wikipedia:Meta-Wikipedia, which is different. -- User:Toby Bartels 01:57 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC) : I just don't think meta is important enough to warrant an article in an encyclopedia. It's not even really a standalone website - more like a subsidiary of wikipedia. User:MyRedDice : I'm inclined to agree. it's a bit too much like navel-gazing. -- User:Tarquin 11:05 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC) : It seems harmless enough to me (not paper, and all that) -- but the ''real'' problem is that the official navel-gazing article, Wikipedia:Meta-Wikipedia, is too small. If somebody's thinking of moving this there, then I'd advise simply ''copying'' this there -- and rewriting a bit less NPOV. (That is, say things like "Please come over and join the fun!".) Or if somebody feels that this important to fix but doesn't know what to write, then indicate that, and I'll write it. -- User:Toby Bartels 06:34 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)

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Meta can refer to: * A prefix (meaning about) derived from Greek language, see Meta- * Meta Department, a Departments of Colombia of Colombia. * Meta River, a river of Colombia * Meta, Missouri; a town in Missouri * Meta, Kentucky; a town in Kentucky * ''Meta (genus)'', a genus (biology) of spiders of the family ''Tetragnathidae'' * The first wife of Aegeas in Greek mythology, who bore him no heirs. * ''The Wikimedia project coordination [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page meta-wiki]''.

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====meta - wikipedia==== Added Wikipedia, as I sought it searching 'meta'. Seems a link to [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page meta.wikimedia.org] may even be more appropriate, would offsite links fly here? -User:Here 08:25, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC) ---- I thought this word ment "beyond". Is there any suport for that? ---- This is inscrutable stuff: We read: ''Meta a direction orthogonal to x,y and z.'' So it's singular. ''Meta is the axes formed by what Rucker and others often refer to as Ana and Kata.'' So it's plural. Which? And who "Rucker and others", and in what context? We read: ''Data about or processes operating on in the Hypercomputing Dictionary.'' Data about what, and processes operating on what? And what's the "Hypercomputing Dictionary"? We read: ''To 'go meta' is to step orthogonally to the situation in order to grok additional layers of information that are affecting the decision making process.'' What does "step orthogonally to the situation" mean? -- User:Hoary 06:22, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC) :No answer yet, so I'm deleting this material. -- User:Hoary 12:32, 2005 May 5 (UTC)

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