Now that we're talking about it: This is a prototype welcome page: < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/is> It would be translatable of course (contrary to the current "wiki does not exist"), see for example in Dutch: < http://robinpepermans.be/mw-dev/index.php?title=Wn/is&uselang=nl> It is adapted to the project and language, while the current page is a standard text that is the same for all languages and projects. The language names are from the CLDR extension which has recently been enabled on Wikimedia wikis.
2011/6/7 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> > On 06/07/2011 09:34 PM, Robin Pepermans wrote: > > Milos Rancic said that I should announce this on foundation-l, so here it > > is: > > > > I had written a MediaWiki extension specifically for Wikimedia Incubator. > > It's now enabled, so users can set their test wiki preference, and there > are > > also recent changes per test wiki. For example, changes in the Kichwa > > Wikipedia test: < > > > http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?limit=250&rc-testwiki-project=p&rc-testwiki-code=qug > >> > > > > More features will be added later, e.g. a welcome portal for non-existent > > projects that will hopefully in the future replace the current "wiki does > > not exist" page. > > This is much more important than Robin values his own work. Incubator > extension is the first step for a couple of important things: > > * "Wiki does not exist" is a message for very limited number of > languages. For example, there is no Wikiversity in Serbian and by typing > http://sr.wikiversity.org/ you will get "this wiki does not exist". At > the other side, for example, we have a living Gheg Albanian community at > Incubator, but by typing http://aln.wikipedia.org/ -- you will get DNS > error. Thus, proper implementation would mean that if you type > http://xyz.wikipedia.org/ -- where "xyz" is a valid ISO 639-3 code, you > would get "Welcome. This is to be the site for a free encyclopedia in > the XYZ language. If you speak XYZ then you can get started right now in > building this particular Wikipedia!" > > * Projects inside of the Incubator won't have to wait for "sustainable > activity" to get "their Wikipedia". > > * Languages with small population would be able to get some types of > projects -- like Wiktionary and Wikibooks are -- inside of their > Wikipedias. So, http://xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks:something would > have redirect from http://xyz.wiktionary.org/wiki/something. > > * Articles about languages on Wikipedias could have additional template: > There is no Wikipedia in this language, but you can start it here! > > I think that those enhancements would back us into the days when we were > welcoming new projects, as well as speakers of various languages would > get appropriate tools and help for creating successful projects. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l