Sounds like a good move to me. J
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:09 PM Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The way in which the Incubator works is extremely outdated. It is > considerably more difficult to write there than to write in a usual > Wikipedia domain. This is unfair, and there is no good reason for it. Some > time ago I wrote a proposal for a thorough overhaul of how the Incubator > works. > > Very briefly, my proposal is: > * Instead of putting all the languages in one place, create a wiki for > each new language. > * This wiki will not be a full-fledged domain that is fully equal to > Wikipedia. The URL will look differently, and it will be possible to delete > it easily if the wiki turns out to be problematic for any reason. > * However, this wiki will support all the usual functionality of a wiki: > user accounts shared with Wikipeia in other languages, Wikidata > connectivity, extensions, templates, Visual Editor, Content Translation, > etc. > * The wiki will not demand the convoluted techniques that the Incubator > demands, such as "Wp/abc/" prefixes. > * If the wiki functions well and the Langcom approves it, it will be > converted to a full-fledged domain. > * (This applies to all Incubator projects and not only Wikipedia.) > > For more details, see: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165585 > > The proposal is over a year old, but it didn't get a lot of responses from > Language Committee members. I think that the time is ripe for starting to > execute it, but to convince the right engineers and managers to do it, it > would be nice to get some endorsements first. > > If you support it, please leave a comment there. (If you don't know how to > leave a comment in Phabricator, please contact me.) > > If you have any reservations, please leave a comment there as well, or > reply to this email. > > Getting a unanimous endorsement email from all the Langcom members, or at > least the active ones, will be particularly nice, but only if everybody > actually agrees, of course :) > > Thank you! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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