Incubator:Future/strategy

Wikimedia Incubator strategy planning - http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WikimediaIncubatorStrategy

Participants:

• SPQRobin
• Millosh
• Romaine
• Danny B.
• Ebe123

TO ALL: Can we perhaps schedule a next little irc meeting, then we should (beforehand preferably) prepare some documents on our goals (e.g. multiple incubators)? What about now Thursday 15 September (19h UTC)? #wikimedia-incubator!

• Fine to me, me pinging as well -- Romaine
• may be, just ping me on irc to remind me ;-) -- DannyB
• fine with me, too -- Milos

Goals

• Multiple Incubators? (mul.wikipedia.org?) (Danny B.'s proposal/project)
• TODO: make comparison of pros and cons
• Redirects to incubator & working redirects in both ways (bug 30206)
• Give one or more of us shell access to create wikis
• Or create tool for creating wikis? Wikia has that.
  • Robin, may you check that Wikia extension? Angela was creating new wikis ~5 years ago via web interface.
  • Will see what is best/easiest
• Coordination between Incubator admins & LangCom & MediaWiki developers
• Propose changes to LangCom policy?
• e.g. allow projects in historical languages? (-> see Wp/grc, Wp/ota)
• There are no simple projects on Incubator and we want to keep it that way. They should start on their "mother" wiki.
• Tools, tools, tools
• WikimediaIncubator extension (etherpad <http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WikimediaIncubator>)
• Toolserver tools
• On-site gadgets
• Documentation
• How to deal with large projects to be closed when they get inactive? (like Wn/nl)
• archiving XML dump on Incubator (bug ...)
• Thanks to the new policy, I don't think this will be the case anymore
• I have a long list of things we should do, will make a nice list of that and put it online

Meeting (keep chronological!)

• IRC
• Real-life meeting earlier than hackathon?
  • WMF funding?
• Hackathon March-May (?) 2012
• Some presentation/lightning talk at Hackathon (March-May 2012) and/or Chapters meeting (March/April 2012)
• Presentation at Wikimania 2012: old Incubator compared to new Incubator, and how people should start wikis
• Indonesia Conference October 2012

Timeline

• 2011
  • September
    • 13: Initial IRC/etherpad meeting
    • 27: IRC/skype/etherpad meeting
  • October
    • Little meeting Aachen
  • November
  • December
• 2012
  • January
  • February
  • March
    • Chapters meeting
  • April
  • May
    • Hackathon 2012 (GOAL: final work on strategy)
  • June
  • July
    • Wikimania 2012 (GOAL: present our "strategy" to public)
  • August
  • September
  • October
    • Conference in Indonesia (GOAL: create new wikis -- that's also why we need our strategy; "create new wikis" could mean "create them on Incubator, with redirects")
  • November
  • December