Welcome to Wikimedia Incubator!

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:

These will likely stay here:

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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Cạlit ghoṭnako

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.

Contact/Help:

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

Sister projects

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

Wikipedia The free encyclopedia	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus	Wikisource Free-content library	Wikiquote Collection of quotations
Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikinews Free-content news	Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities	Wikivoyage The free online travel guide
Wikispecies Directory of species	Wikidata The free knowledge base	Wikimedia Commons Shared media repository	Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination