[Wikimedia-l] About the wiki-adoption process

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

David Cuenca, 16/07/2013 22:29:
> I've seen that there is a "new" Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate [2],
> a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence
> copyright status. I was wondering if there should be a standard procedure
> for this kind of adoption requests. It is very easy to add a support for a
> project, but not that easy to evaluate the hidden costs (migration, legal
> deffense, etc), which might require some expertise on the topic.
>
> With all this information at hand, maybe it would be easier to take
> informed decissions and evaluate the kind of success that is expected from
> a given adoption.

If you're interested in this, you should join the efforts of the 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SPCom
Garfield and Geoff also kindly shared some information on the costs for 
Wikivoyage adoption: 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#Cost_of_Wikivoyage>

Nemo