[Foundation-l] "Waiting Room" Wiki

[James Hare]

Despite not being within the bounds of Wikimedia projects, certain things
can still be useful for other non-Wikimedia projects to pick up in the
future. To accomodate such pages, we could start up a "waiting room" wiki
that would reside there until they can be exported somewhere. For example,
let's say someone writes a very crufty article about The Simpsons. However,
if there isn't a Simpsons-Wiki yet, then the page can be exported to the
waiting room wiki in the meantime. This way, when a Simpsons-Wiki comes to
existence, they can search through the waiting room for content they can
use. They can then export it (conserving the edit history) and import it
onto their wiki.

Another example is if someone writes an article, say, "List of sex symbols."
Obviously not within Wikipedia's goals, however may prove useful for someone
else in the future. In the meantime, it can be exported to the lovely
dumping ground that is the Waiting Room Wiki. Once someone starts some sex
symbol project, they can export the page and use it.

Keep in mind that this is not a Wikimedia project like Wikinews and
Wiktionary are, but something more like the Incubator which is used for our
purposes.

Cheers,
MessedRocker.
(Or James Hare)