Hi all,
The Belarusan Official-orthography Test WP is growing very quickly. It currently has probably over 2000 pages. (this is compared to 5000 on current Belarusan Wikipedia, which has existed for over two years now)
Belarusan orthographical issues have been discussed on this list before, but I feel it needs to be brought up again.
The reason is that these pages are quickly filling Incubator. The original intention of Test Wikis was to be a place to test the viability of a new language Wiki prior to its creation. It was agreed by most that once any of them surpassed about 100 articles, their Wiki should probably be created.
However, the Belarusan Test is growing at such a rate that it has already dwarfed most of the other current tests on Incubator.
But its future is uncertain. Currently it appears that Belarusan Official-orthography will not be approved for a new Wikipedia, and besides, people don't agree on the solution (should it be overwritten onto existing be.wp, should it be given the domain bel.wp, or what?).
But the question of its future remains unanswered. Incubator cannot be its permanent home.
Mark