[Foundation-l] "Waiting Room" Wiki

Sat Jun 24 06:57:04 UTC 2006

The Incubator is more for things that are allowable under Foundation bylaws
that will spin off into a new project if popular enough.

The Waiting Room Wiki would be used for things that are highly unlikely to
used in a Wikimedia project, so they sit and wait until claimed by someone
else. At least this way, the article can be preserved and maybe cleaned up
in the process.

On 6/24/06, Klaas <patio_nl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If there would not be an article about the Simpsons
> why not just create it eventually in your userspace
> first if you're not sure enough? The sandbox can be
> used
> for this purpose as well.
>
> I see no use for a seperate waiting room which may be
> filled with a lot of stuff that is barely organized.
>
> Patio (Pationl on w:en)
>
> --- James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Despite not being within the bounds of Wikimedia
> > projects, certain things
> > can still be useful for other non-Wikimedia projects
> > to pick up in the
> > future. To accomodate such pages, we could start up
> > a "waiting room" wiki
> > that would reside there until they can be exported
> > somewhere. For example,
> > let's say someone writes a very crufty article about
> > The Simpsons. However,
> > if there isn't a Simpsons-Wiki yet, then the page
> > can be exported to the
> > waiting room wiki in the meantime. This way, when a
> > Simpsons-Wiki comes to
> > existence, they can search through the waiting room
> > for content they can
> > use. They can then export it (conserving the edit
> > history) and import it
> > onto their wiki.
> >
>
>
> Groets / Ciao,
> Klaas e/o Paola
> home www.innocentisart.nl
>
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