Time to close this wiki?

It's clear this wiki is gathering dust. I'd like to start a discussion about shutting it down and transitioning the content to an ideas.wikimedia.org setup and moving processes to meta.

To be honest I completely disagree. I came here looking for something and looking at the recent changes that isn't all that uncommon. In fact it looks to be still in active use and has a lot more edits then many of our content projects. It also sounds a little bit odd to kill an active project moveing the content to a brand new and not active project (wiki or otherwise since ideas.wikimedia doesn't exist yet).

On a side note I think the sitenotice is unnecessary. All it serves to do is interrupt the reading or editing flow of people working here. If the community as a whole wants to put it up then I won't argue but I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the cost right now. People will see the discussion here and if they choose to respond can. I think given the type of people who come here anyone interested will see it in recent changes or a village pump check. Jamesofur 04:02, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Struck 2nd paragraph since mono actually already did it while I was typing. Sorry for jumping on so quickly :) Thanks! Jamesofur 04:05, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I too don't want to see this wiki closed. It's not as active as some of the other content projects, but proposals are still being discussed and brainstormed. Is there really any advantage to renaming this wiki ideas.wikimedia ? I generally concur with Jamesofur.

I think we'd make more productive use of the knowledge and proposals we've built here if it were integrated into a more active project. The strength of Wikipedia has always been around activity. If there's no activity, the value is lost. Renaming it won't make it more active, but moving it into an active project (like meta) might.

Otherwise, leave it be and protect some of the better pages.

I'm a little afraid the opposite will happen. Having our own wiki gives us individuality. If we were to merge with Meta, the distinction between our operations and theirs might become blurred, and we'd end up taking a back seat since our community is considerably smaller.

I'd like to suggest that, since there are concerns about inactivity, we promote and publicise this wiki a little more among other WMF projects. That's a potentially easier way to infuse contributors than transitioning to a new wiki, which takes some time.

NO!!! The wiki is good to keep separate. Also, this wiki is active. Close it in 5 years pehaps but it isn't time right now!