2018-07-25 6:19 GMT+03:00 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com
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I support the idea in general. Do you have any
proposal about the existing
incubator and migrating the whole content and related data to new wikis? It
does not sound an easy task.
Thanks.
Migrating existing incubators is probably one of the easiest things to do.
When a new domain is approved and created, all the pages from the Incubator
in that language are imported there, with automatic replacement of
"Wp/xyz/" prefixes. As far as I know, it is a fairly easy, automatic, and
quick process. So, the active Incubators should be imported the same way to
the new framework. MF-Warburg usually does it, and I'd love to hear his
input about this.
What to do about the inactive incubators? I'm pretty flexible about this. I
guess that after exporting the active ones, we can simply make
incubator.wikimedia.org read-only. It shouldn't be deleted because it's
good to preserve community discussions there as an archive. If anybody
wants to revive the inactive incubators, it will (probably) be possible to
import them the same way. More nuanced proposals are welcome.
As far as I can see, the most challenging parts of my proposals are:
1. Creating a stable and automatic way to bootstrap a new wiki. At the
moment this involves running a lot of scripts and making a lot of different
manual configuration changes. The current manual process is documented at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki . I know almost nothing
about it.
2. Making sure that monitoring the multiple wikis for vandalism and spam
works at least as well as it does for the current Incubator.
However, a comment in Phabricator by Martic Urbanec (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165585#4221392 ) says that both things
are doable. He is often involved with creating new wikis, so we can trust
his opinion.