It is very difficult to set specific criteria for this, as this risks
forming a minimum set of behaviors to meet the criteria.

>From my perspective of posting requests for approval, I generally use
somewhat safe and conservative criteria.
1. At least 6 months of activity, unless there are special linguistic
circumstances (special = the number of speakers is significantly lower than
in other languages, etc)
2. There must be at least 3 users with valid edits in a month of activity,
which is a very minimal standard; excluding all edits by users of other
projects for bot editing, lint error fixing, and LTA editing, etc
3. Reevaluate whether 6 months is appropriate, taking into account whether
there is a previous log of activity, whether there are more than 3 editors
who are consistently active, or whether there are temporary bursts of
activity, etc.. It may be down(6-) or up
4. Whether only the minimum behavior to meet the number of editors continues

It's very difficult to put a specific number on this because there are so
many factors that go into modifying this 6 month period, even though I've
only listed the factors that come to mind.
But generally speaking, if the 6 months criterion is met, at least in
Wikipedia's case, it is rare for it to be abandoned after approval.

Sotiale

2025년 3월 3일 (월) 오전 8:44, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>님이
작성:

> Hi,
>
> For as long as I remember being involved with the Language committee,
> there hasn't been a clear definition of what does "active in the Incubator"
> exactly mean. Is there a specific number of articles, number of users, or
> number of weeks or months of continuous activity?
>
> My impression is that the committee does it by intuition. It's not
> necessarily bad, because every language community has its own story. Quite
> often, however, various people ask me about it, and I would really love to
> have a better answer than "intuition".
>
> Unless I'm missing something, a precise definition cannot be found on any
> of these pages:
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(requesters)
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(committee)
>
> Something a bit closer to a definition appears on language request pages
> on Meta through the template: "The community needs to develop an active
> test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics,
> recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at
> least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the
> previous few months."
>
> The words "at least three active, not-grayed-out editors" are quite
> precise, but "the previous few months"—not really.
>
> Some things to consider:
> * If "at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections
> for the previous few months" is the policy, can it be copied to
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy ?
> * Is "three active, not-grayed-out editors" good as it is? Too strict? Too
> lax? Too easy to game?
> * Should we perhaps write something like "at least three active,
> not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months,
> ^but every case will be checked manually by Language committee members
> separately^"? This is the actual practice anyway, as far as I can tell.
>
> Other suggestions are welcome.
>
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