[Wikipedia-l] Belarusan problem

[Mark Williamson]

Hi all,

The Belarusan Official-orthography Test WP is growing very quickly. It
currently has probably over 2000 pages. (this is compared to 5000 on
current Belarusan Wikipedia, which has existed for over two years now)

Belarusan orthographical issues have been discussed on this list
before, but I feel it needs to be brought up again.

The reason is that these pages are quickly filling Incubator. The
original intention of Test Wikis was to be a place to test the
viability of a new language Wiki prior to its creation. It was agreed
by most that once any of them surpassed about 100 articles, their Wiki
should probably be created.

However, the Belarusan Test is growing at such a rate that it has
already dwarfed most of the other current tests on Incubator.

But its future is uncertain. Currently it appears that Belarusan
Official-orthography will not be approved for a new Wikipedia, and
besides, people don't agree on the solution (should it be overwritten
onto existing be.wp, should it be given the domain bel.wp, or what?).

But the question of its future remains unanswered. Incubator cannot be
its permanent home.

Mark