Lalchhuansanga Pachuau hett schreven:
TO: Incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
I'm Lalchhuansanga Pachuau, from Mizoram State of India. I want to start
Mizo Wikipedia (
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lus). Now, I and my
friends start working on Khampat .COM (
http://www.khampat.com), the Mizo
web-portal and we are planning to host an wiki encyclopedia (we called it
Wikipatdia) and hosting on
http://wiki.khampat.com.
But, now we found out that there is a chance that you can host(?) Mizo
Wikipedia. So, we are contacting you for how to start it.
And, we want to ask these:
1. How many articles you need for us to start Mizo Wikipedia?
There's no fixed number. The basic requisites are outlined at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy>.
Basically, you have to translate the most used messages of the software
interface (about 500 messages; this can be done at
<http://translatewiki.net/>), and you have to show constant interest (by
creating new articles on the Incubator). The language committee will
consider approving the project as soon as they are convinced, that the
community won't loose interest in the project. As I said, there's no
fixed number of articles, but to give at least a rough number: With 300
articles you have a realistic chance to be approved. But: The more the
better. And more important is constant activity.
One warning: The language committee is sometimes not very responsive.
Annoy them, if they don't react. (But don't start annoying them before
you have met the requisites outlined by me and by
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy>.)
As a minimum time frame before the project will go live under its own
subdomain (
lus.wikipedia.org) I would expect half a year. Four, five
months to show constant activity and some additional time to technically
create the subdomain (creating it is actually not that hard, but our
tech team has to do much work and experience tells us, that it can take
months).
2. Who will manage the front page (Main_Page)?
3. Can we/I have more/advanced access regarding the administration by
myself or my team?
You are free to elect administrators among the active members of your
community. As soon as your project is approved and created and the
administrator rights set, these persons then can administrate the page
(in the technical limits of the Wikimedia software and limited by the
provisions of the global Wikimedia policies). An administrator can
choose to protect the Main Page. A protected Main Page can be edited by
administrators only.
Marcus Buck