[Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Tim, how hard is it to create a missing DNS entry for a language code that
is "eligible" under the language policy?
Thanks,
      Gerard

On 23 December 2011 01:24, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 23/12/11 09:44, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > This is great news! In the sense of software implementation, we are
> > just a step behind the implementation of the initial spirit of
> > Wikipedia: If you know this language, you can start free encyclopedia
> > now! (Though, there are some organizational issues to be resolved.)
>
> We did have a "create this wiki" button on the missing wiki page for a
> while. I set it up with a cron job to automatically clear the request
> queue. Hundreds of wikis were created that way. Eventually the
> community was overwhelmed with a desire for bureaucracy and I was
> asked to disable it, in favour of a meta.wikimedia.org request process.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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