Anthere wrote:
My problem is that if we start a project because there are 10 supporters, we sort of hope that a certain momentum will exist from the very beginning. When it actually turns out that only 1 person is behind 10 supports... errrrr.... there is no momentum.
The simple solution would be to require them to start on Wikicities (or some other external site) and gather, say, 500 articles (now, that *is* momentum), before their wiki is "promoted" to a Wikipedia or Wiktionary in the new language, or some other kind of official Wikimedia Foundation project.
I have no opinion on whether this is a *good* solution, but it's a simple one. I'm a technical guy, and appreciate simple solutions. It would direct energy towards creating articles, rather than creating sock puppets.