Anthony DiPierro wrote:
I think we have very different views as to what a Wiki
Incubator would
be. I don't really see the purpose as guaging interest, but more of
answering questions and building a core community. In that sense I
think something like Wikiversity would be perfect for it - yes,
there's no lack of interest, but there are a number of questions to
the point where approximately 1/3 of Wikimedians don't even think it
should be a project.
What I was mostly thinking of was Node's endless proposals for Wikis in
new languages. Without help from an active controversy those projects
could more easily have a quicker death.
I don't oppose Wikiversity in principle; I just think that it needs a
lot more thinking.
I also don't see why a wiki for game cards or for
elementary schools
or for (to use another example) dead people wouldn't make a good wiki.
In fact, at some point or another I've proposed the latter two as
projects.
As far as I'm concerned, whatever we have on these belongs in Wikipedia.
We only need bold and courageous action to deal with the deletion madness.
Finally, whatever Wikicities wants to do is up to it.
We're talking
about a small little site that pretty much no one has heard of. I
really don't think it matters what they're trying to do. Wikimedia
should make its policies for Wikimedia, and Wikicities can figure out
how to deal with that.
Agreed. I have yet to even visit Wikicities. It just doesn't appeal to
me. I already have plenty to do without looking for more work.
Anyway, I can't edit on meta, and you seem to have
a much different
idea of an incubator wiki anyway. Besides, the idea has been floating
around for months already. The cynic in me thinks that the red tape
to create a project is probably too great, especially a project which
threatens to "end up being a fork of" Angela's website.
I don't think I want to go there. ;-)
Ec