Incubator:Policy

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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.

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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 BetaWikiversity
- Wikisource, go to Wikisource

You can start a test language of the projects mentioned above, at any time for any reason^[1]. It is not required to have a proposal at Meta, but it is more useful.
You have to do following:
- Create a main page, with an article name consisting of just the prefix: Project/code.
  - 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.
- 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

Tests that are inactive for over a year will be proposed for deletion on Incubator:Requests for deletions and can be exported to the Incubator Plus.
If a project is given final approval by the language subcommittee, the test's pages will be imported to the new subdomain wiki. All pages will be deleted, except the main page, there will be addded a notice, {{approved}} (see /Test language status for further information).
If it is rejected, the test will be kept for future proposals when the requirements are fulfilled.
- Or, as mentioned a few lines above, it will be proposed for deletion on Incubator:Requests for deletions and can be exported to the Incubator Plus.
- It can be deleted, see below;
You can propose a deletion of a test language at Incubator:Requests for deletions. You may only propose a deletion of a test language which does not have a proposal on Meta or is rejected by the langcom.
- Active contributors to the test can vote, other people can only give arguments against the deletion and in favor of the deletion.

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.

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. (currently this is all the rights, until bug 10727 is fixed)
This requires:
- He has to be a good contributer 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.
If the language is approved fully, the test admins will become admins on the new wiki, and lose their status here (they can reapply it at the normal way).

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

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