[Foundation-l] Closure of MANY WMF projects

[Chad]

This issue has come up several times before, and I've thought up a solution.

What if we had a centralized wiki (called archive.wikimedia.org or somesuch)
where all closed/inactive wikis with a low number of contributions could be
archived. That way, rather than leaving a Wikiquote locked with 2
pages and unlikely
to ever be found, we could have a centralized place where all of these
low-content
projects could be placed.

Thoughts?

Chad

On Jan 11, 2008 10:54 AM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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