(I am obviously biased on the Norwegian Wikinews, but I'll share my opinions, but this shouldn't count as a vote.)

The top news story on the Norwegian Wikinews is that Erna Solberg was elected prime minister. The news story is four years old (and even at the time was a one-off in a slate of inactivity), but ironically became relevant again this fall when she was re-elected. The story was made by a non-native speaker, and had plenty of spelling mistakes and whatnot until they were fixed by a native speaker six months later.

In my opninion, the fact that this project is still "open" (despite the wishes of practically all Norwegian Wikimedia community members) is nothing less than an embarrasment for the movement. So I would support closing it, but not moving content to Incubator. Moving eight–eleven year old news articles just to move them is just a waste of time and resources. If it should get an active Incubator community (unlikely to happen, but theoretically possible), it would be better for that community to start with a clean slate and not have to bother about the old infrastructure and content that was made years ago and should be obsolete by now.

2017-11-21 17:27 GMT+01:00 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>:

I think both proposals should be rejected. Norwegian Wikinews in particular as it has way too many pages. If a "rebirth" happens in Incubator, it could just as well or even better happen on the subdomain. I don't want a pointless painful page-moving like nl.wikinews again.

2017-11-20 16:14 GMT+01:00 Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com>:

Concerning Bosnian Wikibooks: That's fine. Assuming no further comments by tomorrow (one week after I brought it back up to the committee), I will close that one as unsuccessful (that is, project remains open). That said, Milos, I would encourage you to look through the small number of mainspace pages there and see if there is anything that shouldn't be there. (One of the posters on that proposal claimed that one page was in English, and one appeared to be spam. You can certainly mark inappropriate pages for deletion and have a steward or GS sweep around and delete them.)

Concerning Norwegian Wikinews: I haven't heard from anyone yet. So I will assume a seven day clock starting today, and if I hear nothing further I will also close that as unsuccessful.

Steven

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