Sister Projects Committee

Current new project process

There is currently hardly a process to deal with New project proposals. That page lists things about gathering support for a proposal, and suggests criteria for interest and support that should be met before a proposal is reviewed. The 'review' step once a project meets those criteria needs to be worked out. [Historically it has only happened via a site-wide RfC and a cross-project discussion and vote; which is hard to launch and a lot of work.]

• Category:Proposed projects
• Strategy:Category:Proposals for new projects

Participants

Current

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This is still a draft committee; the members below are the first active participants. Please list your interest and get involved on the talk page and the task list!

Background
LangCom member, incubator and mediawiki administrator
Wikipedist since 2006. See crossWikiness. Have been a steward. Sysop on 3 small wikipedias and creator and contributor on several test-wikipedias of the Incubator (and test-sysop on some of them). Editor on French Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikinews and Wiktionary (also sysop on the last three) as well as Commons, Meta and English Wikipedia. Experience with French Wikiversity and Wikiquote as well as OmegaWiki, TranslateWiki and OpenStreetsMap outside WMF. Small contributions on a lot of other projects and involved in outreach as part of the Canadian Aboriginal Languages Wikipedia Coordination. Member of Wikimedia Canada. Easily reachable on IRC.
Wikipedist since 2010. Sysop at 2 wikis (incubator and strategy). Observer of LangCom.
contributing to Wikipedia, a long time ago also to Wikibooks. Bureaucrat on Incubator, member of Langcom, therefore very interested in making use of the experience from there in the process of approving new projects.
I do stuff.
Admin on English Wikipedia / Meta / Commons, dabbler in others. Currently president of Wikimedia New York City.
Admin on Meta, global sysop, interested in this proposal. Would probably only be an observer.
From pl Wikimedia projects (mostly Wikipedia, Wikinews), Commons, backstage projects too.
OTRS-member, MediaWiki translator Bureaucrat on pl-wikiquote, pl-wikisource, SysOp on pl-wikibooks, pl-wikimedia, pl-wikinews, pl-wikiquite, pl-wikisource, pl-wiktionary
Mostly active on Wikinews, and English Wikipedia
Currently ukwn and ukwq sysop; Was or is invlved in voy, wd, commons and wp as well

Task list

Here is a laundry list of potential tasks. Please add your own, and mark them as important/unimportant, and in/out of scope. Take the /Draft charter in mind.

Positional issues

• Defunct private wikis: grants.wikimedia.org (private, rarely used, unused since 2005), spcom (special projects committee, unused since 2006), &c
• Single-purpose, now dormant wikis: ten.wikimedia.org, sep11 wiki, &c.
• Periodic wikis: wikimania2005–wikimania2012
• Combining meta discussions: Strategy, Outreach, Meta
  • Better plan for custom Meta namespaces: Grants, Research, &c?

Topic-specific issues

• Conference proceedings and research papers on wikis - where do they go? See recent proposal for a conferences wiki extension; OpenMeetings.org (proposed as a sister project); &c.
  • See also Acawiki / WikiScholar proposals
• Coordinating wiktionary with omegawiki.org: This was the original goal of omegawiki, the community still wants it; it addresses an underlying technical data-structure weakness.
• Coordinating wikispecies (monolingual) with species data on wikipedia (multilingual). Merge? More formalized plan for coordination with Encyclopedia of Life (many of whose contributors edit wikispecies too).
  • Claiming the wikispecies.org domain: how important is this?
• Translations: Meta, translatewiki, interlanguage links... all are used in some way by translators. How should this work?

Data issues

• Which of the above questions has an answer that may be modified once wikidata is fully functional?
• Is download.wikimedia.org in scope for this group?
  • Working with reusers, from researchers to dbpedia and metaweb. do they need special affordances?

Functional issues

• A prioritized bug list for each sister project? (e.g. oldwikisource:WS:BUGS) Large-scale questions? Ex: the 100MB file size limit on Commons (unchanged in 5 yrs!), the lack of a public image dump for Commons, proofreading extensions for wikisource, custom dual-category lists for wikinews.
• Summarizing expectations each project has of the WMF
• Summarizing expectations projects have of one another [esp. when they rely on eachother], and that WMF and readers have of projects
• Defining the spectrum of support options for projects by Wikimedia: from minor traffic generation/grants for Movement Partners, to vanilla hosting on the Labs/toolserver of a protoproject, to inclusion as WMF Project (with SUL, suffrage in global votes, adherence to shared principles).

Project plans

• Projects that pass initial milestones for being added as a sister project should have some sort of roadmap or project plan, before final adoption. See for instance Commons:Project_plan.