[Foundation-l] Incubator improvements

[Robin Pepermans]

Now that we're talking about it:
This is a prototype welcome page: <
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/is>
It would be translatable of course (contrary to the current "wiki does not
exist"), see for example in Dutch: <
http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/is&uselang=nl>
It is adapted to the project and language, while the current page is a
standard text that is the same for all languages and projects.
The language names are from the CLDR extension which has recently been
enabled on Wikimedia wikis.

2011/6/7 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> On 06/07/2011 09:34 PM, Robin Pepermans wrote:
> > Milos Rancic said that I should announce this on foundation-l, so here it
> > is:
> >
> > I had written a MediaWiki extension specifically for Wikimedia Incubator.
> > It's now enabled, so users can set their test wiki preference, and there
> are
> > also recent changes per test wiki. For example, changes in the Kichwa
> > Wikipedia test: <
> >
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?limit=250&rc-testwiki-project=p&rc-testwiki-code=qug
> >>
> >
> > More features will be added later, e.g. a welcome portal for non-existent
> > projects that will hopefully in the future replace the current "wiki does
> > not exist" page.
>
> This is much more important than Robin values his own work. Incubator
> extension is the first step for a couple of important things:
>
> * "Wiki does not exist" is a message for very limited number of
> languages. For example, there is no Wikiversity in Serbian and by typing
> http://sr.wikiversity.org/ you will get "this wiki does not exist". At
> the other side, for example, we have a living Gheg Albanian community at
> Incubator, but by typing http://aln.wikipedia.org/ -- you will get DNS
> error. Thus, proper implementation would mean that if you type
> http://xyz.wikipedia.org/ -- where "xyz" is a valid ISO 639-3 code, you
> would get "Welcome. This is to be the site for a free encyclopedia in
> the XYZ language. If you speak XYZ then you can get started right now in
> building this particular Wikipedia!"
>
> * Projects inside of the Incubator won't have to wait for "sustainable
> activity" to get "their Wikipedia".
>
> * Languages with small population would be able to get some types of
> projects -- like Wiktionary and Wikibooks are -- inside of their
> Wikipedias. So, http://xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks:something would
> have redirect from http://xyz.wiktionary.org/wiki/something.
>
> * Articles about languages on Wikipedias could have additional template:
> There is no Wikipedia in this language, but you can start it here!
>
> I think that those enhancements would back us into the days when we were
> welcoming new projects, as well as speakers of various languages would
> get appropriate tools and help for creating successful projects.
>
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