Submissions/The process of creating new Wikipedias: past, present, future

This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2012.

Submission no.

43

Title of the submission: The process of creating new Wikipedias: past, present, future

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation): presentation (download)

Author of the submission: Robin Pepermans

E-mail address: robinp (dot) 1273 (at) gmail (dot) com

Username: SPQRobin

Country of origin: Belgium, Europe

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.): none (maybe relevant: Language committee)

Personal homepage or blog: robinpepermans.be, blog.robinpepermans.be

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

In our mission to spread knowledge to everyone in the world, we need to take into consideration that the majority of our world's population do not know English well enough (if at all) and therefore cannot use English-language resources. That's why we have about 280 language editions of Wikipedia, or about 770 wikis in total, which makes us a truly multilingual project. However, there are an estimated 7000 languages in the world, which means a lot of people still don't have access to knowledge in their language. That is why we need to make it as easy as possible for anyone to start up a Wikipedia or other project in their own language. I want to explain in this talk

what the previous procedure was for opening wikis: anyone could just create a wiki
why the language committee was created and why creating wikis is now not completely open: stopping nonsense projects, basic activity and localisation needed
how it is currently: starting a wiki at Incubator, requesting approval, ...
what I/we have been doing to improve it and what we're working on: automatic info pages, subdomains redirecting to Incubator, ...
how the procedure ideally is; what still needs to be done: faster actual creation of wikis, ...

Track

Technology and Infrastructure (not really, but no other track is relevant)

Length of presentation/talk: not sure, max 25 Minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: Yes, when scholarship is granted

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Amire80 (talk) 22:21, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Valid entry (talk) 01:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC) if it doesn't collide with my presentation time[reply]
Djembayz (talk) 13:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nataev (talk) 13:55, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]