>From my experience, I think something that might be useful to them in the beginning is:
- Have at least 6 to 10 people constantly contributing to the project. (Keep it active) - Aim to keep it active at least for a period of 6 months - Create upto 300 articles within this period. - Someone very savvy in the language can become an admin to clean up the mess that would be made. - Use Translatewiki to localize the Main Page. This is what I usually advise. Tochi On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 10:14 AM Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote: > The request pages in their current form are a little bit outdated in my > opinion, a relic from a time where votes (or !votes) for new editions were > given much more weight. Nowadays they are mainly used to ascertain > eligibility according to the language proposal policy, but the most > important thing is to start the test wiki on the Incubator and maintain an > active community there. There have been cases where a test wiki was active > and even getting ready to be approved before the request page was actually > made, and it wasn't really a problem. > > I would like to actually move the whole process (with the LPP and the > request pages) from Meta to the Incubator. Currently there are two places > where things are done; a very small part, i.e. the request page, is done on > Meta, while the most important part (creating the test wiki and building a > community) is done on the Incubator. I think it makes more sense to have > everything in the Incubator, but I haven't written up a detailed proposal > for that yet. I can hopefully get that done soon, but can't promise any > exact timeline. > > But yeah, to answer the main question for Dendi: I just created the > outline page for it at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ddn , and > they can start from there. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of "help" for > what is needed at the very beginning (that is also something I would like > to do something about), so it is good if they already have some experience > from other language projects or at least have some help from experienced > Wikimedians. > > I also marked the request page you linked to as eligible. > > man. 3. apr. 2023 kl. 10:53 skrev Anass Sedrati <[email protected]>: > >> Hello Colleagues, >> >> I was contracted today by Wikimedians who want to start an incubator >> version in Dendi (a language spoken in Benin by ~500.000 people, iso code: >> ddn). They explained to me that they created this request page >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Dendi>, >> but my understanding is that the mentioned page is a request to create a >> "full" Wikipedia, and not to have an incubator page. Is this a correct >> understanding? >> >> To start their incubator, they just need to be bold and create a main >> Wp/ddn page >> <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wp/ddn/Main_Page&action=edit&redlink=1> >> and start working there. Is that also the correct procedure that I need to >> explain to them? >> >> Thank you colleagues for your clarifications. I wish you a great start of >> your week and look forward to meeting you tomorrow! >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> *Anass SEDRATI* >> *(+46) 70 508 51 07* >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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