Incubator:Policy

From Wikimedia Incubator

Note: the translations are not official, only the English version is official.

This is official Incubator policy. You may edit it, but please discuss major changes on the talk page first.

This is the policy of Incubator.

You can find other parts on:

• Incubator:Policy/Test language status (see #Marking test languages)
• Incubator:Requests for deletions (see #Closure or deletion)
• Incubator:Administrators (see #Administrators)

Contents 1 What Wikimedia Incubator hosts 2 Starting a new test language 3 Closure or deletion 3.1 Common reasons for test deletion 3.2 Test deletion procedure 4 Whilst on Incubator 4.1 Nomenclature 4.2 Test Admins 5 Marking test languages 6 Administrators 7 User's behaviour 8 See also 9 References

What Wikimedia Incubator hosts

• The Wikimedia Incubator hosts tests of new language editions of the following Wikimedia projects:
  • Wikipedia (prefix "Wp/")
  • Wiktionary (prefix "Wt/" - "Wikt/" is the old one)
  • Wikiquote (prefix "Wq/")
  • Wikibooks (prefix "Wb/")
  • Wikinews (prefix "Wn/")
• Incubator does not host a test project which is not in the list above (i.e. the proposals on meta:Proposals for new projects).
• The following Wikimedia projects have to be made somewhere else:
  • Wikiversity, go to Beta Wikiversity (does not use prefixes)
  • Wikisource, go to Old Wikisource (does not use prefixes)

Starting a new test language

See Help:Manual for more information.

• You can start a test language of the projects mentioned above, regardless of whether you have a request at Meta^[1], though it is recommended to ask first for confirmation through the page Incubator:Requests for starting a test^[2]. It is not required to have a proposal at Meta, but without one, your test will not be able to get an own wiki.
• You have to do following:
  • After confirmation at Incubator:Requests for starting a test, you will probably have a page Project/code with an information template on it, otherwise create it using {{test wiki}}.
  • Create a main page, with an article name consisting of just the prefix: Project/code/Main_Page^[3].
  • Project/code/Main_Page means:
    • Project: see #What Wikimedia Incubator hosts
    • Code: a valid w:ISO 639 code. An w:ISO 639-1 code, if it doesn't exists, an w:ISO 639-3 code.
    • Main Page: the word "Main Page" in your language. To make linking easier, it is recommended to be the same as the MediaWiki message "mainpage" (translatable at Betawiki).
  • List the test on Template:Tests.
• Projects must match main m:WM:LPP requirements: project must not already exist, be unique language and have a valid language code

Closure or deletion

Common reasons for test deletion

• If a test does not have a valid ISO 639 language code, it should be deleted
• Tests that are inactive for over a year can be proposed for deletion
• If the test does not have a Meta request, you can propose a deletion at any time
• With decision by the language subcommittee
  • If a project is given final approval, the test's pages will be imported to the new subdomain wiki. All pages should be deleted, except the main page, there will be added a notice (see /Test language status for further information).
  • If it is rejected, the test can be kept for future proposals when the requirements are fulfilled (if this is possible), or else it should be proposed for deletion.

Test deletion procedure

• Propose it on Incubator:Requests for deletions
  • Active contributors to the test can vote, other people can only give arguments against the deletion and in favor of the deletion
  • Further instructions are given there
• If needed, an XML file must be exported (needed means: if the test is not vandalism or nonsense – in general, use common sense)
• If requested, it can be exported to Incubator Plus

Whilst on Incubator

Nomenclature

• All article pages in a test have a prefix of the form "project/langcode/", for example "wp/en/" for English Wikipedia.
• Images cannot be uploaded to Incubator; they must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. (Note that this means that uploading is disabled and that the images will be deleted in the long term)
• Templates and categories must be prefixed as the articles.
• All test languages will be marked with a template as explained on /Test language status.

Test Admins

• Whilst on Incubator, you may apply for test adminship. This gives you a few admin rights (to delete and to block users) on your test.
• This requires:
  • He/She has to be a good contributor to the test language.
  • The test language must have more than 50 pages of content.
  • The test language must have (or have had) a request at Meta, so it is marked with {{open or conditional}} or {{rejected}}.
  • More than 1 person has to be active at the test project.
• When a language is fully approved and its contents have been completely moved to an own wiki, the test admins will lose their status here (they can reapply it in the normal way).

Marking test languages

• There are different templates to mark the status test languages, you can find all information at /Test language status.

Administrators

You can find the policy about administrators, bureaucrats etc. on Incubator:Administrators.

User's behaviour

• If there is sufficient reason to (e.g. vandalism), a user technically able to block may block a user for any timespan appropriate for the action.
• Users are not allowed to use multiple accounts, unless it is a bot or otherwise explicitly stated to be used for a specific purpose.

See also

• Requests for new languages
• Language proposal policy

References

1. ↑ See Meta policy
2. ↑ Link to community discussion and consensus
3. ↑ Link to community discussion and consensus