Hoi,
You may have missed it in the mail I send yesterday, but I
want to propose to change the requirements for a new
Wikipedia.
My proposal is to ask for the current number of full
articles or provide 50 full articles and the complete
labelling of a selected set of 250 Wikidata items.
The rationale is that it takes much less effort to work on
Wikidata and it will quickly amount to providing additional
results for other items. An example: the property "sex" should
be in use on all humans and the qualifiers "male" and "female"
should be in use on all of these as well.
Given that we can provide results from Wikidata in a search
on Wikipedia and given that we can provide visualisation for
humans and organisms already, the arguments in favour of this
move at this time are quite strong.
Add to this that through Wikidata we can connect to Commons
and we have all the attributes why this could quickly have a
big impact for the usability of our projects for a new
language.
When it proves that we are in favour of this move, I expect
it will require confirmation from the board. It will also mean
that WMF has to consider some changes to the official search
routines. (I expect this will NOT be a problem).
Thanks,
GerardM