2018-07-25 6:19 GMT+03:00 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com>:

Thanks.

Migrating existing incubators is probably one of the easiest things to do. When a new domain is approved and created, all the pages from the Incubator in that language are imported there, with automatic replacement of "Wp/xyz/" prefixes. As far as I know, it is a fairly easy, automatic, and quick process. So, the active Incubators should be imported the same way to the new framework. MF-Warburg usually does it, and I'd love to hear his input about this.

What to do about the inactive incubators? I'm pretty flexible about this. I guess that after exporting the active ones, we can simply make incubator.wikimedia.org read-only. It shouldn't be deleted because it's good to preserve community discussions there as an archive. If anybody wants to revive the inactive incubators, it will (probably) be possible to import them the same way. More nuanced proposals are welcome.

As far as I can see, the most challenging parts of my proposals are:

1. Creating a stable and automatic way to bootstrap a new wiki. At the moment this involves running a lot of scripts and making a lot of different manual configuration changes. The current manual process is documented at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki . I know almost nothing about it.

2. Making sure that monitoring the multiple wikis for vandalism and spam works at least as well as it does for the current Incubator.

However, a comment in Phabricator by Martic Urbanec ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165585#4221392 ) says that both things are doable. He is often involved with creating new wikis, so we can trust his opinion.