[Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

[M. Williamson]

This is of course essentially what we did in the Good Old Days, but somebody
(or somebodies?) decided we needed More Rules, so now we have them, and as
is often the case with too many rules, they've constricted what was once a
free-flowing process and limited almost all new wikis to a very small
geographical area: Europe, Russian Federation and Indonesia with only a
couple of outliers, and for little observable benefit, as far as I can tell.

2011/8/8 Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>

> Maybe a new system of "incubation" would be helpful. For example, one
> could start the requested wikis on their future domain
> (xxx.wikipedia.org / xxx.wiktionary.org etc.pp.) right from the
> request, with at least two voluntary experienced supervisors on each
> (one can supervise more than one of these of course) who get sysop and
> crat rights and stay there as long as it takes to get the approval of
> LangCom for an independent wiki (that is, after translating the most
> important parts of the MW software and that stuff). With email
> notification, the community of the test project can easily reach the
> supervisors and they of course should be in the wiki on a daily basis
> to look that everything is ok there. In the best case, they could try
> to attract more native speakers of the language to work there. Then a
> closing request for a wiki that became inactive would just be a
> request for supervision of that wiki. That means, the wiki stays where
> it is, but gets two supervisors who take on the administrative tasks
> and start some promotion maybe. Well, it's just an idea.
>
> BR
> Th.
>
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