TLDR: I seek fellow developers with whom to collaborate on creating the largest and most inclusive wiki in the world, Inclupedia. http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/Inclupedia
Inclupedia is a project to make available, on an OpenEdithttp://wikiindex.org/Category:OpenEditwiki, pages deleted from Wikipedia for notability reasons, as well as articles created from scratch on Inclupedia. Thus, it will combine elements of Deletionpedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionpedia and Wikinfohttp://wikiindex.org/Wikinfoas well as the various Wikipedia mirrors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks. It will be, in other words, a supplement to, and an up-to-date mirror of, Wikipedia content.
Inclupedia seeks to accomplish the entire inclusionisthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipediaagenda through technical means, rather than through a political solution that would require persuading deletionists and moderates to change their wiki-philosophies. Inclupedia will have no notability requirements for articles, and will let people post (almost) whatever they want in userspace. It will also, however, learn from the failures of the various Wikipedia forks that could not sustain much activity because they had no way of becoming a comprehensive encyclopedia without duplicating Wikipedians' labor.
Complete, seamless, and continuous integration with Wikipedia is required. That is what will enable Inclupedia to be different from those ill-fated aspirants to the throne whose abandoned, rotting carcasses now litter the wikisphere. Inclupedia aspires to be the largest and most inclusive wiki in the world, since the set of Inclupedia pages (and revisions) will always be a superset https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/superset of the set of Wikipedia pages (and revisions).
People sometimes ask, "Hasn't this already been done?" It would seem that it hasn't, which is why so much of the implementing code has to be designed and developed rather than borrowed or reverse-engineered. In some ways, the closest project to this one may have been been the various proprietary sites that used the Wikimedia update feed servicehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_update_feed_serviceto stay continuously up-to-date with Wikipedia, but to my knowledge none of them used MediaWiki as their engine, and their inner workings are a mystery. Those also tended to be read-only rather than mass collaborative sites.
The core of what needs to be done is (1) developing a bot(s) to pull post-dump data from Wikipedia and push it to Inclupedia, (2) developing capability to merge received data into Inclupedia without losing any data or suffering inconsistencies, e.g. resulting from collisions with existing content (as might happen, e.g. in mirrored page moves involving destinations that already exist on Inclupedia), and (3) developing all the other capabilities involved in running a site that's both a mirror and a supplement, e.g. locking mirrored pages from editing by Inclupedians (unless there will be forking/overriding capability).
I can't exactly post a bug to MediaZilla saying "Create Inclupedia" and then have a bunch of different bugs it depends on, because non-WMF projects are beyond the scope of MediaZilla. Some bugs (e.g. bug 59618https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59618) concerning Inclupedia-reliant functionality are already in MediaZilla, but there will inevitably arise completely Inclupedia-specific matters that need to be dealt with in a different venue. Presumably, it'll be necessary to create a whole new infrastructure of bug reporting, mailing lists, IRC channels, etc. But, I want to get it right from the beginning, since this is an opportunity to start from scratch (e.g. maybe there is a better code review tool than Gerrit?) I have created Meta-Inclu as a venue for project coordination.
Mostly, I would like help with design decisions, code review, etc. It's such a big project, it seems almost overwhelming to contemplate doing singlehandedly, but it's probably doable if there are a few people involved who can bounce ideas off one another, provide moral support, etc. So, if you are interested, feel free to email back or create an account at Meta-Inclu, and we can begin discussing the details of implementation. http://meta.inclumedia.org/
If there were to be insufficient volunteer support for implementing this wiki, then the next step might be to try to get funding to pay developers. There's no guarantee that such funding would be obtainable, though, or that it wouldn't come with significant strings attached, that would conflict with the basic principles and vision of the site, or lead to a lot of (what I might consider) undesirable technical decisions being made. But we do what we have to do to make what we are passionate about a reality, to the extent that's possible given the resources at hand. Thanks,