Incubator:Policy

What Incubator Plus hosts

 * The Incubator Plus hosts tests of new language editions of the following current or requested Wikimedia projects:
 * Wikipedia (prefix "Wp/")
 * Wiktionary (prefix "Wikt/"
 * Wikiquote (prefix "Wq/")
 * Wikibooks (prefix "Wb/")
 * Wikinews (prefix "Wn/")
 * Wikiversity (prefix "Wv/")
 * Wikisource (prefix "Ws/")
 * Wikitravel (prefix "Wt/")
 * Wikispecies (prefix "Wsp/</tt>")
 * For a tests of the not yet existing Wikimythes please use (prefix "Wm/</tt>")
 * Incubator Plus does not host a test project which is not in the list above or don't have a proposal on New Projects Proposals.

Starting a new test language

 * You can start a test language of the projects mentioned above, at any time for any reason. It is not required to have a proposal at Meta, but it is more useful.
 * You have to do following:
 * Create a main page, with an article name consisting of just the prefix: Project/code</tt>.
 * Project: see
 * Code: a valid ISO-639 code. An ISO 639-1 code, if it doesn't exists, an ISO 639-3 code. If there is no ISO-code you can use the complete languagename or ask an administrator to create an IP code.
 * List the test on Template:Tests.

Closure or deletion

 * Tests on the Wikimedia Incubator that are inactive for over a year will be deleted or placed to here. A test here cannot be deleted.
 * If a project is given final approval by the language subcommittee, the test's pages will be imported to the new subdomain wiki. All pages will be deleted, except the main page, and a notice will be added.
 * If it is rejected, the test will be kept for future proposals when the requirements are fulfilled.

Nomenclature

 * All pages in a test have a prefix of the form "project/langcode/", for example "wp/en/" for English Wikipedia.
 * Images need to be uploaded directly to the Incubator Plus; we do not have access to the Wikimedia Commons.
 * Templates and categories must be prefixed just like articles must.

Test Admins

 * Whilst on Incubator Plus, you may apply for test adminship. This gives you admin rights (to delete and protect pages, and to block users) on your test only.
 * This requires that:
 * the user is a good contributor to the test language.
 * the test language must have more than 25 pages of content.
 * the test language must be active for at least the last week.


 * If the language is approved fully, the test admins will become admins on the new wiki, and lose their status here (they can reapply it at the normal way).
 * If the test is inactive for more than 4 months you will lose your status at the Incubator Plus.

Further reading: Incubator Plus:Administrators

Wikia Policy
There are very few policies which apply across all Wikia. These can be found on the Central Wikia at Wikia:Category:Policy.

Other policies for this Wikia will be decided by the wiki community. It's generally best to keep policies as simple as possible, and not to introduce too many rules. A growing wiki can usually do well with a few simple policies and a lot of good will and cooperation.

Adding to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found here.

See also Project:Simplified ruleset