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Welcome to Wikimedia Incubator!

This is theWikimedia Incubator,where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new-language versions ofWikipedia,Wikibooks,Wikinews,Wikiquote,WiktionaryandWikivoyagecan be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by theWikimedia Foundation.

Although test wikis in the Wikimedia Incubator do not get their own wiki domains, they can be read and edited just like any other Wikimedia project wiki.

New language versions ofWikiversityshould go toBeta Wikiversity,and those ofWikisourcetoMultilingual Wikisource.

You cannot start an entirely new project here. You may only start a new-language version of an existing project. If you want to start a new project, go tometa:proposals for new projects,or seeWikisporeif you want to create a test.

Incubating wikis

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Here are some active wikis:

These have been approved and/or created:

These are active and might get their own site soon:

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Moroccan Arabic Wiktionary
Madurese Wiktionary

Wikinews

Shan Wikinews

Wikiquote

Gorontalo Wikiquote
Hausa Wikiquote

Wikivoyage

Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage
Indonesian Wikivoyage

These will likely stay here:

Ancient Greek Wikipedia

For a full list of wikis on Wikimedia Incubator, seeIncubator:Wikis.

How to start a new test wiki

If you are here to start a new language edition of a project, you can find all information onHelp:Manual.Please be aware of the localpolicy.

Some important rules:

You need a validlanguage code(explained inthe manual). If you don't, you can apply for one, or use the non-Wikimedia wikiIncubator Plus 2.0.
Starting a test wiki here doesn't mean it will later be automatically accepted by Wikimedia; you need it to be approved by theLanguage committeefirst. SeeRequests for new languagesfor more information.
Please respect the naming conventions for the test language, to help future migrations of pages to an actual wiki project. All of your test pages (including templates and categories) need to be named uniquely (by using a prefix) and consistently.

How to contribute to a test wiki on Incubator

If you have knowledge of a language which currently has a test wiki here, you are strongly encouraged to contribute to that test wiki.

Please give all pages you create a correct prefix.More information about prefixes.

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Current events

9 August 2024:West Coast Bajau Wikipediahas been created.
26 July 2024:Czech Wikivoyagehas been created.
21 June 2024:Batak Mandailing Wikipediahas been created.
28 May 2024:Central Dusun Wikipediahas been created.
24 April 2024:Betawi Wikipedia,Igala Wikipedia,Wikisource Burmese,Kusaal Wikipedia,Georgian Wikisource,Karakalpak Wiktionary,Malay Wikisourcehave been created.

Contact/Help:

Community Portal,for all questions
IRC channel #wikimedia-incubator(chat externally)

Sister projects

TheWikimedia Foundationoperates several othermultilingualandfree-contentprojects:

Wikipedia The free encyclopedia	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus	Wikisource Free-content library	Wikiquote Collection of quotations
Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikinews Free-content news	Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities	Wikivoyage The free online travel guide
Wikispecies Directory of species	Wikidata The free knowledge base	Wikimedia Commons Shared media repository	Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination