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This is the Wikimedia Incubator, where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new-language versions of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage can be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by the Wikimedia 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 of Wikiversity should go to Beta Wikiversity, and those of Wikisource to Multilingual 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 to meta:proposals for new projects, or see Wikispore if 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

Wikiquote

Hausa Wikiquote
Swahili Wikiquote

Wiktionary

Wikinews

Gungbe Wikinews

Wikivoyage

Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage
Indonesian Wikivoyage

These will likely stay here:

Ancient Greek Wikipedia

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

Hoe om 'n nuwe toets-wiki te begin

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

Enkele belangrike reëls:

You need a valid language code (explained in the manual). If you don't, you can apply for one, or use the non-Wikimedia wiki Incubator 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 the Language committee first. See Requests for new languages for 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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Huidige gebeure

23 March 2023: The gadget that adds links in the sidebar for setting your interface language and test wiki has now been made to work for mobile users.
22 March 2023: Angika Wikipedia has been created.
27 February 2023: Wayuu Wikipedia and Farefare Wikipedia have been created.
4 January 2023: Shan Wikibooks, Assamese Wikiquote, Gungbe Wikiquote, and Gorontalo Wiktionary have been created.

2022

10 October 2022: Bengali Wikiquote, Tagalog Wikiquote, Central Bikol Wikiquote, Igbo Wikiquote, and Igbo Wiktionary have been created.

Contact/Help:

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

Sister projects

The Wikimedia Foundation operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

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