-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, BrianBrian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote: > > I propose expanding the notion of the Wikimedia Incubator to include > entirely new projects that are very, very easy to create. They don't need to > be approved by the WMF - they just need to demonstrate their value by > attracting a community and creating great content. This would be more like > the Apache Incubator, but even more open. This gives people an easy way to > prototype their ideas for new projects, to advertise them, and over time > will give an overview of what kinds of projects and approaches to projects > are likely to succeed and likely to fail. Brilliant idea. Currently new projects proposed on meta have buckley's chance of ever starting.  Wikiversity wasn't a new project - it was split from wikibooks. We would need a bit of infrastructure around new concepts before they land on the incubator, such as a detailed description of the purpose, and an experienced admin willing to monitor that area of the incubator. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l