Incubator:News

2023

• 6 November 2023: Moroccan Amazigh Wikipedia, Banjar Wikiquote, Dagaare Wikipedia, and Toba Batak Wikipedia have been created.
• 3 October 2023: Fon Wikipedia has been created.

• 30 August 2023: Talysh Wikipedia has been created.
• 16 August 2023: Sundanese Wikisource (from Multilingual Wikisource) and Pa'O Wiktionary have been created.
• 26 July 2023: The Batak Mandailing Wiktionary is created.
• 5 July 2023: The Ghanaian Pidgin English Wikipedia is created.
• 20 April 2023: The Gun Wikinews, Tyap Wiktionary, Fante Wikipedia, and Kabardian Wiktionary have been created.
• 29 March 2023: The Central Kurdish Wiktionary has been created.
• 23 March 2023: The gadget that adds links in the sidebar for setting your interface language and test wiki has now been made to work for mobile users.
• 22 March 2023: Angika Wikipedia has been created.
• 27 February 2023: Wayuu Wikipedia and Farefare Wikipedia have been created.
• 4 January 2023: Shan Wikibooks, Assamese Wikiquote, Gungbe Wikiquote, and Gorontalo Wiktionary have been created.

2022

• 10 October 2022: Bengali Wikiquote, Tagalog Wikiquote, Central Bikol Wikiquote, Igbo Wikiquote, and Igbo Wiktionary have been created.
• 25 September 2022: A new gadget for adding interwiki links has been enabled by default for everyone.
• 17 August 2022: Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia, Gun Wiktionary, and Banjar Wiktionary have been created.
• 19 July 2022: Pa'O Wikipedia has been created.
• 16 May 2022: Tyap Wikipedia has been created.
• 6 May 2022: A new version of the AddPrefix gadget has been enabled by default for everyone.
• 23 March 2022: Gungbe Wikipedia and Shan Wikivoyage have been created.

2021

• 28 October 2021: Lombard Wiktionary, Amis Wikipedia, and Paiwan Wikipedia have been created.
• 4 August 2021: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Javanese Wikisource have been created.
• 10 July 2021: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Balinese Wikisource have been created.
• 30 June 2021: Dagbani Wikipedia and Tachelhit Wikipedia have been created.
• 16 March 2021: Mon Wiktionary, Seediq/Taroko Wikipedia and Tayal Wikipedia have been created.
• 22 February 2021: Meitei Wikipedia, Meitei Wiktionary and Southern Altai Wikipedia have been created.
• 19 January 2021: Turkish Wikivoyage has been created.
• 11 January 2021: Nias Wikipedia, Nias Wiktionary, Central Bikol Wiktionary and Zazaki Wiktionary have been created.

2020

• 15 December 2020: Madurese Wikipedia, Saraiki Wikipedia and Wiktionary, Esperanto Wikivoyage (and from outside of Incubator: Walloon Wikisource) have been created.
• 19 October 2020: Inari Sami Wikipedia has been created.
• 6 September 2020: Japanese Wikivoyage has been created.
• 17 August 2020: Ladin Wikipedia has been created.
• 29 July 2020: Kotava Wikipedia has been created.
• 21 July 2020: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Ligurian Wikisource has been created.
• 20 July 2020: Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia has been created.
• 22 June 2020: Shan Wiktionary has been created.
• 20 May 2020: Goan Konkani Wiktionary has been created.
• 20 May 2020: Awadhi Wikipedia has been created.

2019

• 22 November 2019: Tacawit Wiktionary has been created.
• 22 November 2019: Guianan Creole Wikipedia has been created.
• 21 November 2019: Sakizaya Wikipedia has been created.
• 21 November 2019: Minangkabau Wiktionary has been created.
• 4 November 2019: Mon Wikipedia has been created.
• 14 October 2019: Balinese Wikipedia has been created.
• 8 October 2019: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Hindi Wikisource has been created.
• 26 September 2019: N’Ko Wikipedia has been created.
• 14 August 2019: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Neapolitan Wikisource has been created.
• 4 April 2019: Western Armenian Wikipedia has been created.

2018

• 14 November 2018: Cantonese Wiktionary has been created.
• 14 November 2018: Limburgish Wikinews has been created.
• 14 November 2018: Shan Wikipedia has been created.
• 13 November 2018: Wikidata arbitrary access is enabled on Incubator.
• 8 August 2018: The AddPrefix gadget is now turned on by default.
• 2 August 2018: Santali Wikipedia has been created.
• 2 August 2018: (from Beta Wikiversity): Chinese Wikiversity has been created.
• 8 June 2018: Pashto Wikivoyage has been created.
• 8 June 2018: Sakha Wikiquote has been created.
• 8 June 2018: Bengali Wikivoyage has been created.
• 8 June 2018: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Piedmontese Wikisource has been created.
• 18 April 2018: Gorontalo Wikipedia has been created.
• 18 April 2018: Ingush Wikipedia has been created.
• 18 April 2018: Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia has been created.
• 18 April 2018: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Basque Wikisource has been created.

2017

• 6 November 2017: Fiji Hindi Wiktionary has been created.
• 27 September 2017: Hindi Wikivoyage has been created.
• 22 August 2017: Bashkir Wikibooks has been reopened.
• 13 August 2017: (from Beta Wikiversity): Hindi Wikiversity has been created.
• 13 July 2017: Dinka Wikipedia has been created.
• 5 July 2017: Dutch Wikinews has been reopened.
• 23 June 2017: Kabiye Wikipedia has been created.
• 14 June 2017: Atikamekw Wikipedia has been created.
• 17 May 2017: Amire80 has filed a ticket on Phabricator regarding ease-of-use on Incubator and project creation.
• 24 April 2017: Dotyali Wikipedia has been created.
• 14 April 2017: (from Multilingual Wikisource): Punjabi Wikisource has been created.

2016

• 30 November 2016: Finnish Wikivoyage has been created.
• 7 October 2016: Wikipedia Livvi-Karelian has been created.
• 4 August 2016: Wikipedia Tulu has been created.
• 2 May 2016: Wikipedia Jamaican Creole English has been created.
• 11 February 2016: Wikipedia Adyghe has been created.

2015

• 22 July 2015: South Azerbaijani Wikipedia has been created.
• 16 June 2015: Goan Konkani and Northern Luri Wikipedia have been created.

2014

• 6 November 2014: Maithili Wikipedia has been created.
• 2 October 2014: Persian Wikivoyage has been created.
• 14 January 2014: Chinese Wikivoyage has been created.

2013

• 11 August 2013: Tuvan Wikipedia and Vietnamese Wikivoyage have been created.
• 16 May 2013: Venetian Wiktionary and Greek Wikivoyage have been created.
• 27 March 2013: Hebrew Wikivoyage and Ukrainian Wikivoyage have been created.
• 11 February 2013: Project specific logos can now be enabled through a gadget, in addition to the test-wiki-specific setting.
• 6 February 2013: Minangkabau Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikiquote, Romanian Wikivoyage, Polish Wikivoyage (and from outside of Incubator: Korean Wikiversity) have been created.
• 3 January 2013: Spanish Wikivoyage, Portuguese Wikivoyage (and from outside of Incubator: Assamese Wikisource) have been created.

2012

• 1 September 2012: Creation of a Wikimedia mailing list dedicated to languages-related topics: languages@lists.wikimedia.org.
• 25 July 2012: A series of new features has been added to the Wikimedia Incubator to make it more user-friendly, such as Special:IncubatorFirstSteps for newcomers. See the news page for others.
• 7 May 2012: A proposal to disable uploading on smaller wikis. Does not affect Incubator, as local uploads are already disabled, but interesting for new wikis.
• 27 March 2012: Lezgi Wikipedia (and from outside of Incubator: Gujarati Wikisource, Belarussian Wikisource, Slovenian Wikiversity) have been created.
• 24 February 2012: MediaWiki 1.19 deployment
• 21 February 2012: International Mother Language Day: IRC office hour about language support
• 6 February 2012: The Translate extension has been enabled on the Incubator. Translators can now translate in an easier interface at Special:Translate.
• 1 February 2012: Veps Wikipedia, Punjabi Wiktionary (and from outside of Incubator: Marathi Wikisource) have been created.

2011

• 28 December 2011: Our look back at the year is published.
• 23 December 2011: MoodBar feedback is working now.
• 12 December 2011: WebFonts font embedding enabled (see Help:Fonts); improved search; possibility to view users by testwiki
• 15 November 2011: Narayam input methods were enabled (see Help:Typing)
• 9 November 2011: Northern Sotho Wikipedia (Wp/nso) has been created
• 8 October 2011: There has been Wikipedia meetup in Aachen (Germany), in which some Incubator admins participated.
• 28 September 2011: Oriya Wiktionary (Wt/or) re-opened
• 27 September 2011: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment
• 21 September 2011: You can now use an automatic babel infobox instead of a template.
• 25 August 2011: We now have user preference statistics.
• 24 August 2011: The extension has been updated. Now all non-existing info pages display default welcome pages.
• 9 August 2011: All files are now moved to Commons. Only our logo is left.
• 12 July 2011: The Mingrelian Wikipedia (and from outside of Incubator: Arabic Wikiversity) have been created.
• 25 June 2011: The Closing projects policy is adopted.
• 6 June 2011: The Incubator extension has been enabled. There is now a test wiki preference and recent changes per test wiki.
• 2 June 2011: Wikimedia Incubator exists for five years now!
• 13-15 May 2011: The Language Committee (and developers) have met in Berlin
• 9 April 2011: wn/el has been created
• April 2011: See meta:User:SPQRobin/Closing projects for a policy proposal for Proposals for closing projects
• 18 March 2011: Latgalien Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia and wn/sq (and from outside of Incubator: ws/sa, ws/sah and ws/eo) have been created
• 23 January 2011: Rusyn Wikipedia has been created
• 15 January 2011: Wikipedia celebrates its 10th anniversary

2010

• 13 November 2010: Gagauz Wikipedia, wb/li, wn/eo and Palatine German Wikipedia (and from outside of Incubator: ws/br and ws/vec) have been created
• 17 October 2010: wn/fa, Komi-Permyak Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia and Western Mari Wikipedia have been created
• 19 August 2010: Northern Frisian Wikipedia and wn/ko have been created
• 2 June 2010: Incubator exists for 4 years
• 19 March 2010: Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia has been created

2009

• 24 December 2009: Picard Wikipedia (wp/pcd) has been created
• 25 September 2009: The LocalisationUpdate extension has been enabled
• 12 August 2009: Several wikis have been created (Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, wn/tr)
• 9 July 2009: The Mari Wikipedia (wp/mhr) has been created at http://mhr.wikipedia.org/ – contribute now!
• 2 June 2009: Wikimedia Incubator exists for three years now!
• 3 April 2009: The gadget AddPrefix is available on Special:Preferences that automatically adds a prefix on page creation
• March/April 2009: A tool is being created at http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=proposewiki that should make it easier to start a new test
• 5 March 2009: The Pontic Wikipedia (wp/pnt) has been created at http://pnt.wikipedia.org/ – contribute now!

2008

• 24 November 2008: The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia (wp/arz) has been created at http://arz.wikipedia.org/ – contribute now!
• 03 November 2008: We now have a mailing list – subscribe then you'll receive important news and discussions.
• 11 September 2008: The translator group has been created
• 11 September 2008: The maximum number of subpages allowed to move at one time, has been extended from 100 to 500
• 23 August 2008: The idea for a translator group has come up
• 9 August 2008: An interesting feature request on Meta has been proposed: m:Flood flag to allow admins to temporarily hide their actions on recent changes
• July 2008: Contribute to discussion about the new community draft of the language policy. The policy deals with opening wikis for our current projects in new languages.
• 10 July 2008: The sidebar has been changed so the search box is at the top of the sidebar.
• June 2008: We are migrating Main Pages from "Wx/xx" to "Wx/xx/Main Page". Please move the Main Page of your test project!
• 2 June 2008: Incubator celebrates its second anniversary since its creation on 2 June 2006!
• 1 June 2008: The Main Page has been redesigned and can be translated.
• 27 May 2008: BetaWikiversity has been proposed to be closed.
• 26 May 2008: 15 new wikis have been created.