[Foundation-l] Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects (was Vote to create Wikiversity Vote)

Mon Nov 14 03:28:28 UTC 2005

> Anyway, I can't edit on meta, and you seem to have a much different
> idea of an incubator wiki anyway.  Besides, the idea has been floating
> around for months already.  The cynic in me thinks that the red tape
> to create a project is probably too great, especially a project which
> threatens to "end up being a fork of" Angela's website.

Are you suggesting Wikimedia *should* become a general wiki hosting
site? Wikicities already has a policy to not create encyclopedias in
languages supported on Wikimedia, and not to create projects that
duplicate existing Wikimedia ones, so I don't see any likely overlap,
and any content currently at Wikicities can easily move to Wikimedia,
if the community supports that, for as long as they share the same
license. A wiki used as a Wikimedia version of the WikiLabs at
scratchpad.wikicities.com should obviously only contain things that
have some chance of becoming Wikimedia projects or languages. This is
what the community approval that you call "red tape" would be for if
this site is launched. Otherwise, you're just wasting people's time by
telling them to contribute to a wiki that is never going to be moved
to an official Wikimedia domain.

Angela.