Incubator:Policy

Incubator Plus 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/")
  • For a tests of the not yet existing Wikimythes please use (prefix "Wm/")
• 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.
    • Project: see #What Incubator Plus hosts
    • 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.

Whilst on Incubator

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

See also

• Requests for new languages
• Language proposal policy

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 [[Category:Policy]] to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found here.

See also Project:Simplified ruleset