Hi,
We should certainly listen to what the developers say. In the case of
the aa and ho wikis, their databases are very small presumably to have
any big performance impact so I'd say that they will not complain a
lot. In case it is possible to redirect those domains to their
respective Incubator test projects it'll also work for me. In fact,
maybe we should be doing that for projects closed for X years, but
maybe that's something we should discuss in a separate thread or
elsewhere.
Best regards, M.
2017-07-03 1:40 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>om>:
2017-07-02 17:56 GMT+02:00 MarcoAurelio
<strigiwm(a)gmail.com>om>:
I however would like to submit that I feel that in the case of
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Afar_Wikipedia,_Wikibooks_and_Wiktionary>
we could at least propose that aa.wikibooks and aa.wiktionary be deleted and
its domains redirected to their respective Incubator test projects where it
is more likely that we will get any contributing, if any. As proposer I know
I am a bit biased but IMHO there's no reason to keep living Wikibooks and
Wiktionary Afar, and the only reason to keep Wikipedia Afar is because
sysadmins use it to run maintenance scripts that have to start somewhere. I
such I'd like the commitee to consider MF-W proposed outcome in that
proposal and instead approve to keep aawiki, but delete aa.wikibooks and
aa.wiktionary, with the domain redirecting to their respective Incubator
test projects.
As for
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Hiri_Motu_Wikipedia>,
I don't understand why rejecting is being proposed here. There's majority
support for it and it never had any content nor it is likely that the
project will be opened in the next decade. Its database could be deleted and
its domain could be redirected to the Incubator test project where
contributing could happen instead that of a closed wiki.
I understood that aa.wikipedia was already taken out of the proposal.
I proposed the rejection of the deletions because the existence of the
closed wikis doesn't do any harm while at the same time it seems that the
deletion of a wiki is complicated work that is better to be avoided (at
least that was my conclusion from the recent question of reopening or
recreating nl.wikinews. If the developers tell us otherwise e.g. in T169450
I am willing to reconsider ofc). Yes, for these projects we probably won't
see any reopening in the next decade, but then probably we also won't see
any contributors in the next decade who would be inconvenienced by the wiki
being there. It merely prevents a direct redirect
aa.wikibooks.org->incubator:Wb/aa, however a link to Incubator is always
there in the sitenotices. That said,
2017-07-03 1:16 GMT+02:00 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
MF-W, for the never-started projects: is it
possible to keep the database
(to avoid technical issues) but redirect the domain to the incubator page?
I have no idea. It could be a good solution if deletion should indeed be
avoided. I suppose we can ask that in T169450 as well.
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