Last modified: 2014-05-28 20:42:09 UTC
Allow a number of wikis to share a "content" namespace with wikitext. The namespace would: # look local: #* browsable, readable as a local namespace for all purposes, #* editable without leaving your wiki (either by shared DB table or remote editing via CORS); # live centrally: #* on an actual wiki or just a database without its own interface, #* as long as any update is immediately reflected on all consumers. Example of possible use cases: * Docs, like [[mw:Help:Contents]] and [[m:Help:Help]] (cf. bug 43591) * Policies and guidelines + discussions about them, e.g. [[m:Category:Wikimedia policies and guidelines]] (only a handful pages but important) Proposal by Rd232 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/?oldid=3467184: «a Meta: namespace which is accessible across all Wikimedia projects (in the same way that Commons files are accessible everywhere in the File: namespace) [...] home on another coordinating wiki, with which it can then share templates. [...] it's like InstantCommons, so we can call it InstantMeta [...]». Note that the requirements are very different from bug 4547, which is about a) fetching, b) wikitext c) for local parsing (typically templates). To be clear, I don't think this is ever going to happen. :)
