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'''Wikimedia Meta-Wiki''', also known as '''Meta-Wiki''', and internally within the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF) as merely '''Meta''' – this '{{tag|meta}}' [[wiki]] is used by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to act as a central primary coordination [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]] for all of their '[[wmf:Our projects|projects]]' and activities; which include running [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] and various sister projects, and also originally included [[:Category:Programming|developing]] their own [[:Category:Wiki Engine|wiki engine]] software, known as {{tag|MediaWiki}}.

#Discussion and formulation of {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF) projects, in particular {{tag|policy}} discussion relevant to across projects, such as {{tag|open content}} [[:Category:Wiki License|licensing]].  The central venue for discussion is the [[Wikimedia Forum]].  Some high-level discussions, held mainly in [[:Category:Founded in 2009|2009]], were split to [[Wikimedia Strategic Planning]] (also known as Strategy Wiki – itself now {{WMF-Meta|Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Strategy Wiki|closed}}).

#[[:Category:Wiki Multilingual|Interlingual]] (cross-wiki) and international coordination concerning the WMF projects and the Wikimedia movement in general; including discussion in [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]] other than [[:Category:Wiki English|English]].  This includes requests (for pan-Wikimedia or other wikis), {{tag|translation}}s and news, and the description, {{tag|documentation}}, and discussion of real-life activities and facts related to the Wikimedia Foundation and affiliates.  This includes reports, {{tag|events}}, outreach, and {{tag|Financial|grants}}.

#{{tag|Writing}} and dissemination of personal {{tag|essay}}s about WMF projects.  Because these are usually not delivered from a [[neutral point of view]] (NPOV), they are often summarized on neutral issues pages from multiple {{tag|Point of view|points of view}}.  There is a degree of freedom in determining what is related to Wikimedia projects, which makes Meta-Wiki also a 'meatball wiki' of sorts; discussing such matters as [[wiki culture]] and patterns.  This role includes more formal {{tag|research}} and related discussion.

A lot of high-level [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation people|Wikimedia Foundation staff members, stewards, global sysops]], etc., frequent Meta-Wiki.  Many of them use it as their 'home base' wiki, and often ask that any [[user]]s on other WMF projects contact them on Meta-Wiki.  As a result of these users being so readily accessible on-wiki, and rubbing shoulders now and then with other Meta-Wiki users in the course of carrying out their duties, participating in the global wiki-governance aspects of Meta-Wiki, and responding to communications; other Meta-Wiki users tend to become at least superficially acquainted with them within the [[wikisphere]].  Accordingly, disputes that occur on Meta-Wiki often quickly get escalated to the highest levels of WMF, with complaints being posted on those [[WikiIndex:Talk Pages for Wiki People|users' talk pages]], which would not be the case on other wikis.  Thus, it is fairly common to see, for example, attempts to drag high ranking Wikimedia [[:Category:Law|legal]] counsel into conflicts that would, on another wiki, be settled at a much lower level.

*[https://Stats.Wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMETA.htm Wikimedia Statistics – Other Projects Statistics - Wikimedia Meta-Wiki] — Wikistats v1 ([[:Category:Wiki Public Domain (generic)|public domain]]) (final release, 1 February 2019) from [[Erik Zachte]], Stats.Wikimedia.org at [[Wikimedia Statistics]]

*[https://Stats.Wikimedia.org/#/meta.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics - Meta] — Wikistats v2 ([[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)|Creative Commons CC0]]), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics

*[https://Meta.Wikiscan.org Meta-Wiki - Wikiscan statistics] — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation ([[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]]), at [[Wikiscan.org]]

*[https://app.Element.io/#/room/#meta-wikimedia:matrix.org #meta-wikimedia:matrix.org] — Meta-Wiki space Matrix-channel at [[Matrix.org]]

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