Egyptology project

Ec wrote:
>I think that the only place where this is likely to draw 
>a crowd is on the English Wikipedia.  Things tend to be 
>more easily forgotten and  ignored when they're on meta.

Oh like the logo vote, the press release or the article count definition vote? 
Meta is the natural place to corrdinate between different projects and 
language versions. It's use should be encouraged, not discouraged. 

However, I must admit that the way things have usually happened so far is that 
a WikiProject is started on en.wikipedia, developed, and then it is largely 
copied by other languages.... So since WikiProjects are directly related to 
article creation, they should be on an actual Wikipedia, not meta. There can 
be a coordinating page on meta though, but the actual template development 
would probably be best done on one or more of the actual encyclopedia 
projects (so links in a table, for example, actually go to articles and not 
edit pages). 

For example the Countries of the World WikiProject has a dump of a great many 
country tables that can be semi-automatically translated with find/replace:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_world_tables

That type of thing seems to be a logical use of meta. 

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_collaboration

Is also a good link. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)