Hello Srishti Thank you for keeping us in the loop. I've checked through the criteria, and I have nothing more to add but a suggestion: Why don't you also make it a combination of recently added wikis, as well as the older wikis. I noticed that the most recent one in the list has spent at least 2yrs in the incubator, maybe something a year or less. I would also like to see the kind of results this will produce.
--- Tochi On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 4:52 PM Srishti Sethi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Language Committee, > > I am writing today to share a proposal for an experiment addressing a new > approach to onboarding a language wiki. > > Since December 2023, we have had conversations with 35 relevant > stakeholders, including three members from the Language Committee (Tochi, > Mf-Warburg, and Jon), to develop recommendations addressing a few current > challenges with the incubation journey. As a result of these discussions, > several recommendations emerged, which are documented here > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future_of_Language_Incubation/Recommendations > which can be broadly grouped into the following two key areas: > > 1. > > Streamlining technical infrastructure > 2. > > Exploring social pathways > > > For the 2024-25 annual planned work of the Wikimedia Foundation and as > part of the Content Growth objective (WE2/Knowledge Equity) > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Goals/Equity#Closing_Knowledge_Gaps>, > the Language and Product Localization team with guidance from the Language > Committee members, identified a recommendation that addresses some of the > difficulties of content creation in the Incubator due to technical > limitations of the platform. To address this, we would like to try the > following: > > Identify a set of requests (maximum 5) from the list in the new wiki > approval backlog which have been either already approved by the Language > Committee and, prioritize their creation on the production infrastructure > so that they do not have to continue writing content on the incubator wiki. > At the end of a stipulated period we evaluate progress of these prioritized > wikis compared to other test projects (approved or otherwise) still in the > incubator. > > Please see the detailed proposal > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpwimVyhLOJVMnIos4cAAquTglbjdKfiHcdUmHROc3s/edit?usp=sharing>, > including selection and inclusion criteria, timeline, implementation plan, > and more information. We also presented this proposal at Wikimania 2024: > https://youtu.be/BbGrkYK8FEk?t=20299 > > After consultations with several other teams inside the WMF relevant to > this area of work we believe this is a feasible starting point towards > better content creation experiences for newer communities. To move onwards > we would like to reach a shared agreement with the Language Committee and > start off the pilot. Based on the criteria listed in the email, we would > like to include as part of the experiment following list of wikis (also see > attached screenshot): > > > > - > > Mapudungun > - > > Southern Ndebele > - > > Obolo > - > > Tai Nüa > - > > Pannonian Rusyn > > > We would like to kick off this experiment as early as possible and would > really appreciate hearing your suggestions on changes or additions to the > selection criteria and initial list of wikis by August 24th. > > Cheers, > > Srishti > > *Srishti Sethi* > Senior Developer Advocate > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > [image: screenshot_from_2024-08-07_19-41-25.png] > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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