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In an article on itself, Wikipedia is described as "a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project". A phrase commonly shouted out in meta-discussion is "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Although true, Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia, but is also a project to build an encyclopedia. There's no problem with doing things on Wikipedia that aren't immediately about the articles, as long as they are in the interests of the project, which is building an encyclopedia.