Meta-Wiki is a website about the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia, and the MediaWiki software that powers it. It was first created as "Meta-Wikipedia" in November 2001 as a way to keep Wikipedia cleaner by moving all meta-content (content about the Wikipedia website and its users), as opposed to actual content (encyclopedia articles), to a new wiki.

As the number of Wikimedia projects and translations increased, so did the scope of Meta. As a consequence of its history, many of the older pages there are still worded as being specific to Wikipedia, but arguably many now apply to all Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Meta-Wiki now currently serves four roles:

1. Discussion and formulation of the Wikimedia projects, and in particular policy discussion
2. A forum for personal essays about the Wikimedia projects, not necessarily from a neutral point of view
3. A place to discuss interlanguage co-ordination issues concerning the Wikimedia projects
4. A place to describe the MediaWiki software and coordinate the development process.

External links

• Meta Home Page

Wikimedia projects

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