Wikimedia Incubator

Wikimedia Incubator is a Wikimedia Foundation project wiki used for testing new language versions of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiquote.

Wikimedia Incubator

Type of site	wiki Medi Backstage project
Available in	monolanguage (multilingual at future)
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Karl Wick and the Wikimedia Community
URL	Website
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Current status	Active

The Wikimedia Incubator is a testbed for trying out and evaluating new language versions of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary. Only after convincing performance in the Incubator will the Wikimedia Foundation Board consider the creation of a new language version.

New Wikisource language versions are tested in the Old Wikisource, and new Wikiversity language versions in the Beta Wikiversity.

Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki project of the Wikimedia Foundation used to test the feasibility of new Wikimedia projects or existing projects in new languages. It was officially launched in June 2006. Before that, most test wikis were conducted on Meta-Wiki.

Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki project of the Wikimedia Foundation used to test new language editions of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, and Wikivoyage.^[1] New language editions of Wikiversity are hosted on Beta Wikiversity,^[2] and editions of Wikisource are hosted on Old Wikisource.^[3][1]

Completely new projects cannot be started on Wikimedia Incubator.^[1] For those, see Meta-Wiki at meta:New project process.

The creation of a new test wiki does not guarantee it will be approved by Wikimedia; approval from the Language Committee is required first. For more details, see meta:Requests for new languages.

There are Wikipedia editions in 493 languages in the Incubator.

On 11 February 2016, the Adyghe Wikipedia was successfully created.^[4]

On 22 July 2015, the South Azerbaijani Wikipedia was successfully created.^[5]

Overview

As of October 2, 2010, Wikimedia Incubator was hosting test versions of 303 language editions of Wikipedia, 75 of Wiktionary, 49 of Wikibooks, 44 of Wikinews, and 28 of Wikiquote, totaling 499 test projects. When a test project is deemed likely to succeed, it is given its own wiki and URL and becomes "independent." The term "incubator" refers to a device for hatching eggs.

Wikisource is served by the Multilingual Wikisource, and Wikiversity by Beta Wikiversity, both functioning similarly to Incubator.

History

The Wikimedia Incubator project was launched on June 2, 2006, in the following languages: English, Catalan, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, and Japanese.

List

For the latest status, see the list page on Wikimedia Incubator.

Wikipedia

• ain – Ainu language

  Test project started on December 17, 2008. Due to the lack of a standard writing system for Ainu, articles use a mixture of katakana and Latin script. As of July 15, 2023, there are 108 articles.

• akz – Alabama language Alabama
• ami – Amis language
• anp – Angika language
• arn – Mapuche language
• arq – Algerian Arabic Algerian Arabic
• bbj – Ghomala' Ghomala'
• bgn – Western Balochi
• brh – Brahui language Brahui
• bto – Rinconada Bikol language
• bqi – Bakhtiari dialect (a dialect of Luri)
• ckt – Chukchi language Chukchi
• cps – Capiznon language Capiznon
• cpx – Pu-Xian Min Pu-Xian Min
• dar – Dargwa language Dargwa
• dtp – Central Dusun language Central Dusun
• enf – Enets language Enets
• esu – Central Alaskan Yup'ik language Central Alaskan Yup'ik
• fax – Fala language Fala
• fit – Meänkieli (Tornedalian Finnish)
• fkv – Kven language Kven
• grc – Ancient Greek
• guc – Wayuu language Wayuu
• hil – Hiligaynon language
• izh – Ingrian language Ingrian
• jje - Jeju language
• khw – Khowar language
• kiu – Kirmanjki language Kirmanjki
• krj – Kinaray-a language Kinaray-a
• krl – Karelian language
• lki – Laki language
• lus – Mizo language Mizo
• lzz – Laz language Laz
• mnc – Manchu language Manchu
• mnp – Northern Min Northern Min
• mxt – Mixtec language Mixtec
• niv – Nivkh language

  Test project started on December 15, 2008. Articles are written in Cyrillic. As of February 20, 2020, there are 5 articles.

• nys – Nyungar language Nyungar
• orv – Old East Slavic Old East Slavic
• ota – Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish
• pdt – Plautdietsch Plautdietsch
• ppl – Pipil language Pipil
• qug – Chimborazo Highland Quichua Kichwa
• rif – Riffian language Riffian
• ryu – Ryukyuan languages (Okinawan dialect)

  Test project started on July 8, 2005. Initially, articles used a mix of kanji, hiragana, katakana, and Latin script. Over time, Latin-script pages were redirected and Japanese-style writing became dominant. As of February 20, 2020, it had 1,746 articles.

• rys – Yaeyama language
• yoi – Yonaguni language
• mvi – Miyako language
• Amami languages
  • ryn – Northern Amami Ōshima language
  • ams – Southern Amami Ōshima language
  • tkn – Tokunoshima language
  • yox – Yoron language
• sdc – Sassarese Sassarese
• sdh – Southern Kurdish Southern Kurdish
• sei – Seri language Seri
• shi – Shilha language (Tachelhit)
• sli – Lower Silesian language (a dialect of German, not Silesian)
• slr – Salar language Salar
• sma – Southern Sami Southern Sami
• tkl – Tokelauan language Tokelauan
• tly – Talysh language
• tsu – Tsou language Tsou
• tvl – Tuvaluan language Tuvaluan
• tzm – Central Atlas Tamazight Central Atlas Tamazight
• vmf – Main-Franconian Main-Franconian
• yai – Yaghnobi language Yaghnobi
• yua – Yucatec Maya

Wikivoyage

• ja – Japanese Wikivoyage
  • Test project began on November 28, 2012, and transitioned to full operation on August 27, 2020.

See also

• Wikipedia:List of Wikipedias in the incubator [ru]
• incubator:User:Kaiyr/Вики на тюркских языках
• incubator:User:Andrijko Z./Вики на языках народов России и ближнего зарубежья