Bi xêr hatî Wîkîmedîa Înkubator'ê!

This is the Wikimedia Incubator, where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage can be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Although test wikis in the Wikimedia Incubator do not get their own wiki domain, they can be read and edited just like any other Wikimedia project wiki.

New language versions of Wikiversity should go to Beta Wikiversity, and those of Wikisource to Multilingual Wikisource.

You cannot start an entirely new project here: you may only start a new language version of an existing project.

Incubating wikis

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Here are some active wikis:

These have been approved and/or created:

These are active and might get their own site soon:

Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia
Sakizaya Wikipedia
Standard Moroccan Tamazight Wikipedia
Western Balochi Wikipedia

These will likely stay here:

Ancient Greek Wikipedia
Livonian Wikipedia

For a full list of wikis on Wikimedia Incubator, see Incubator:Wikis.

How to start a new test wiki

If you are here to start a new language edition of a project, you can find all information on Help:Manual. Please be aware of the local policy.

Some important rules:

You need a valid language code (explained in the manual). If you don't, you can apply for one, or go to Incubator Plus.
Starting a test wiki here doesn't mean it will later be automatically accepted by Wikimedia; you need it to be approved by the Language committee first. See Requests for new languages for more information.
Please respect the naming conventions for the test language, to help future migrations of pages to an actual wiki project. All of your test pages (including templates and categories) need to be named uniquely (by using a prefix — at least the language code; see above) and consistently.

How to contribute to a test wiki on Incubator

If you have knowledge of a language which currently has a test wiki here, you are strongly encouraged to contribute to that test wiki.

Please give all pages you create a correct prefix. More information about prefixes.

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Bûyerên rojane

14 June 2017: Atikamekw Wikipedia has been created.
24 April 2017: Dotyali Wikipedia has been created.
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.

Contact/Help:

Community Portal, for all questions
IRC channel #wikimedia-incubator (chat externally)

Projeyên bira

The Wikimedia Foundation operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wikipedia Ensîklopediya azad	Wîkîferheng Ferhenga azad	Wîkîçavkanî Kitêbxaneya azad	Wîkîgotin Berhevoka gotinan
Wîkîpirtûk Pirtûkên azad ên ders û berdestnameyan	Wîkînûçe Çavkaniya nûçeyên azad	Wîkîversîte Materyal û aktîvîteyên hînbûna azad	Wikivoyage Rêberê gerra azad
Wîkîcure Rêbernameya cûreyan	Wîkîdane Bingeha zanîna azad	Wîkîmedîa Commons Parvekirina embara medyayê	Meta-Wîkî Koordînasyona projeyên Wîkîmedîayê