[Foundation-l] Closure of MANY WMF projects

[Aphaia]

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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