On 12/30/07, Jason Spiro jasonspiro2@gmail.com wrote:
Dear enwiki sysadmins/developers,
I would like to start Extrapedia, a catch-all wiki for stuff that can't go on Wikipedia. At first, it would only accept high-quality articles about subjects that enwiki considers non-notable.[1] I would eventually like to write some code to make it easier to move pages from Wikipedia to Extrapedia. I figure that writing-code bit will be easier for me if you admins host Extrapedia on either the Foundation servers or on some personal servers of your own.
So, would you sysadmins be willing to kindly host it for now?
I imagine the answer is: "Go get the project approved like all other projects, in accordance with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy, and we'll set it up." If it's in line with Wikimedia's goals, it should be an official project, and if not, why should Wikimedia spend resources to host it? But I'm not a sysadmin, just a developer and user/editor.