I'm reposting here a comment that was posted in [[b:Talk:Wikijunior]]:

During the upcoming September 18 Wikimedia Foundation board meeting, the Board will discuss registering a seperate domain for Wikijunior, presumably wikijunior.org. Presumably Wikijunior will still be developed on Wikibooks, but it will go live on a seperate site. Alternatively, we could have en.wikijunior.org for viewing, and en2.wikijunior.org for editing, which would allow for a greater ease in developing pages, as they could be part of a freeform encyclopedia (on limited topics), rather than the isolated books they are now. If we were to develop off Wikibooks, I'd like us to retain most, if not all of the structure of Wikibooks, it's worked well so far. -- user:zanimum http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Zanimum

What I'm asking is why such a proposal is not going through the normal vetting process required of any new project proposal or is Wikijunior already considered to be a Wikimedia sister project already? I appreciate the efforts of Zanimum, but I certainly think that before a new project domain is started, the full extent of an idea like this should be fully vetted, and even a formal vote should take place, like happened to Wikinews and is going to happen soon with Wikiversity. The purpose of the vote is to mainly get a show of support for the project (I have no doubt that there is some major support from several people on Wikibooks, for instance, regarding Wikijunior). The vote also help critics to try and correct major problems with the proposal. In particular, there doesn't even seem to be any movement at all on Wikibooks to get rid of Wikijunior, and it pretty much stays in its own little corner of Wikibooks quietly undergoing a metamorphisis, such as the current content clean-up campaign on the Wikijunior Solar System at the moment.

This amounts to, IMHO, another stealth new project proposal that is going through the back door. I've complained enough about the new project proposal process here that I've had people telling me to essentially shut up and don't bug people on this list about it. At the same time, I think projects like this need more work on how everything is going to be put together before it should be started on its own seperate wiki, and I've seen no reason why Wikijunior should get any special attention other than it seems like a pet project of some board members.