Hello all,
As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static "this wiki does not exist" error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator, where there is either a development wiki or an info page inviting you to start one. Exceptions are Wikiversity and Wikisource, because they are hosted on different wikis.
For existing development wikis, going to for example http://or.wikiquote.org directs you to the main page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ପ୍ରଧାନ_ପୃଷ୍ଠା. You can also link directly to a page: http://or.wikiquote.org/wiki/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ to http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ. This also enables interwiki links to these Incubator pages. (Interwiki bot maintains: you are welcome to make use of that!)
For missing wikis, going to for example http://arz.wikinews.org directs you to an info page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/arz which is an improved version of the "this wiki does not exist" page: it is adapted to the respective language, and the messages are localisable through https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-wikimediaincubatorinfopage. (Translators: you are welcome to translate that!)
It only works for languages listed on SiteMatrix, so in general it doesn't work for Wikipedias on Incubator.
Regards, Robin (aka SPQRobin)
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 23:26, Robin Pepermans robinp.1273@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static "this wiki does not exist" error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator, where there is either a development wiki or an info page inviting you to start one. Exceptions are Wikiversity and Wikisource, because they are hosted on different wikis.
For existing development wikis, going to for example http://or.wikiquote.org directs you to the main page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ପ୍ରଧାନ_ପୃଷ୍ଠା. You can also link directly to a page: http://or.wikiquote.org/wiki/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ to http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ. This also enables interwiki links to these Incubator pages. (Interwiki bot maintains: you are welcome to make use of that!)
For missing wikis, going to for example http://arz.wikinews.org directs you to an info page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/arz which is an improved version of the "this wiki does not exist" page: it is adapted to the respective language, and the messages are localisable through https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-wikimediaincubatorinfopage. (Translators: you are welcome to translate that!)
It only works for languages listed on SiteMatrix, so in general it doesn't work for Wikipedias on Incubator.
This is great news! In the sense of software implementation, we are just a step behind the implementation of the initial spirit of Wikipedia: If you know this language, you can start free encyclopedia now! (Though, there are some organizational issues to be resolved.)
Thanks to Robin and WMF admins!
On 23/12/11 09:44, Milos Rancic wrote:
This is great news! In the sense of software implementation, we are just a step behind the implementation of the initial spirit of Wikipedia: If you know this language, you can start free encyclopedia now! (Though, there are some organizational issues to be resolved.)
We did have a "create this wiki" button on the missing wiki page for a while. I set it up with a cron job to automatically clear the request queue. Hundreds of wikis were created that way. Eventually the community was overwhelmed with a desire for bureaucracy and I was asked to disable it, in favour of a meta.wikimedia.org request process.
-- Tim Starling
Hoi, Tim, how hard is it to create a missing DNS entry for a language code that is "eligible" under the language policy? Thanks, Gerard
On 23 December 2011 01:24, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 23/12/11 09:44, Milos Rancic wrote:
This is great news! In the sense of software implementation, we are just a step behind the implementation of the initial spirit of Wikipedia: If you know this language, you can start free encyclopedia now! (Though, there are some organizational issues to be resolved.)
We did have a "create this wiki" button on the missing wiki page for a while. I set it up with a cron job to automatically clear the request queue. Hundreds of wikis were created that way. Eventually the community was overwhelmed with a desire for bureaucracy and I was asked to disable it, in favour of a meta.wikimedia.org request process.
-- Tim Starling
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