[Foundation-l] Closure of MANY WMF projects

[Jon Harald Søby]

2008/1/11, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
>
> This issue has come up several times before, and I've thought up a
> solution.
>
> What if we had a centralized wiki (called archive.wikimedia.org or
> somesuch)
> where all closed/inactive wikis with a low number of contributions could
> be
> archived. That way, rather than leaving a Wikiquote locked with 2
> pages and unlikely
> to ever be found, we could have a centralized place where all of these
> low-content
> projects could be placed.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chad
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 10:54 AM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2008 12:41 AM, Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > > What about projects with just one or two content pages, but no content
> > > edits since years? (as for example tt.wikiquote, where one single
> > > (small) content page was created in 2004 and nothing except spam and
> > > cleanup since then)
> >
> > I think the most appropriate reaction to those inactive projects is
> > closure. Most of inactive wiktionary, wikibooks and wikiquote were
> > supposed to be launched without any request of particular user group
> > who exactly had wished for that project or even support of language
> > community (i.e. on the wikipedia). They were just the result of
> > language divisions of monolingual parent projects. I assume the
> > closure of such projects harm none, specially if we leave the way to
> > reopen it and if there are contents even a few, to keep it either as
> > dump or just read-only wikis online.
> >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Thogo.
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > 2008/1/11, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> > > > Hoi,
> > > > BetaWiki has chosen SiteMatrix as its extension of the week. I had a
> good
> > > > look at it and, I was astonished about the huge amount of projects.
> Projects
> > > > that never showed any activity.  Projects that are just empty
> waiting for
> > > > someone to come along and start. Given the long list of discussions
> about
> > > > projects that did show some activity in the past, I expect that
> there is no
> > > > problem in killing of projects that had no activity at all. Projects
> like
> > > > the bm.wiktionary for instance.
> > > >
> > > > If there are no objections, an inventory can be made of such
> projects that
> > > > are then deleted.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >     GerardM
> > >
> > >
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We already have; http://incubator.wikimedia.org/  . The name might not be
optimal, but there is precedent for putting content of closed wikis back
into the Incubator (where they really should have been in the first place).
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Jon Harald Søby
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