[Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

[M. Williamson]

This is an improvement in many ways, but how does it help the average user?
How are people supposed to know that XYZ code points to XYZ language? Right
now we don't have any high-traffic pages pointing to incubator; it seems
less likely that say, en.wp main page will link to every single test wiki.


2011/8/8 Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com>

> SPQRobin is already working on a extension that will point
> xxx.wikipedia.org to the right place on Incubator. The first version
> is already deployed and he showed me the new version on WikiMania.
>
>
> I'm not sure how long it will take, when wmf staff will help him out
> it will take less time. But a beter version is being worked on.
>
>
> 2011/8/8, Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>:
> > Maybe a new system of "incubation" would be helpful. For example, one
> > could start the requested wikis on their future domain
> > (xxx.wikipedia.org / xxx.wiktionary.org etc.pp.) right from the
> > request, with at least two voluntary experienced supervisors on each
> > (one can supervise more than one of these of course) who get sysop and
> > crat rights and stay there as long as it takes to get the approval of
> > LangCom for an independent wiki (that is, after translating the most
> > important parts of the MW software and that stuff). With email
> > notification, the community of the test project can easily reach the
> > supervisors and they of course should be in the wiki on a daily basis
> > to look that everything is ok there. In the best case, they could try
> > to attract more native speakers of the language to work there. Then a
> > closing request for a wiki that became inactive would just be a
> > request for supervision of that wiki. That means, the wiki stays where
> > it is, but gets two supervisors who take on the administrative tasks
> > and start some promotion maybe. Well, it's just an idea.
> >
> > BR
> > Th.
> >
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>
> Huib Laurens
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