MetaWiki

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[edit] What's the purpose of this wiki?

MetaFilter has over 60,000 members and many more readers, and it's developed an astonishing amount of shared history, injokes, rules and guidelines. For both readers and established members alike, the amount of information that is required to understand the website and produce good posts and comments is vast. However, the only way to get access to this information in the past has been simply to read MetaFilter for a long time and stumble along.

This wiki intends to provide a comprehensive and up to date resource about every aspect of MetaFilter that reflects the dynamic nature of the MetaFilter community. In doing so, it should hopefully make the lives of MetaFilter readers and members much easier.

However, this wiki is not a general discussion site, nor is it a dumping ground for things that MetaFilter members find interesting. I don't have unlimited bandwidth or webspace, so it would be nice if I didn't have to spend time getting rid of completely miscellaneous pages.

Traffic: In October 2003, the wiki received over 10,000 hits totalling almost 23MB of bandwidth.

- Adrian

[edit] Protection

At the moment, you have to register in order to edit the wiki. This should cut down on a significant amount of spam, but if that doesn't work, I will require people to confirm their email address before editing.