Hello Jon and Tochi, Thank you both for your valuable advice and information. I think that they will be very happy now that they have a landing page <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ddn> (I think that they thought that they needed an approval to have it). But I will share with them that now is just the time to edit, translate and create, so that we see hopefully the results of their efforts in a near future!
Best regards, Anass On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM Tochi Precious <tochiprecio...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <jhs...@gmail.com> 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 The request pages in their current form are a little bit outdated in my 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 <sedra...@gmail.com>: >> >>> 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 -- langcom@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to langcom-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> mvh >> Jon Harald Søby >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list -- langcom@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to langcom-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- langcom@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to langcom-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > -- ----------------------------------------------------- *Anass SEDRATI* *(+46) 70 508 51 07*
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