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 a 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, an notice will be added, like Template:Approved.
 * 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 direclty to the Incubator Plus; we don't have access to the Wikimedia Commons.
 * Templates and categories must be prefixed as the articles.

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.

Read more: 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