Betawiki being hosted by Wikimedia

This page is for discussion about the possibility of Wikimedia hosting Betawiki, currently hosted independently by Nikerabbit. Betawiki was a test wiki, but has been transformed into being the best place to make global translations to the System messages. It is an important process of keeping MediaWiki and other Wikimedia projects up to date. Nike has made a lot of changes to the MediaWiki to make translations and export of the system messages easier then anywhere els. The idea of moving Betawiki to Wikimedia was brought up on #mediawiki-i18n and Nike seemed keen on the subject and said that the main reason that it hadn't been done yet was because of lack of response from Wikimedia's side.

Betawiki to join Incubator

If Betawiki were to be moved to Wikimedia, there would only be two choices, creating a separate project (beta.wikimedia.org?) or joining it with an exciting project. test.wikipedia.org was my first thought, but that was before I learned about Incubator. The only problem is the confusion Incubator could get. It was started to see if a new project has any grounds of getting created (mainly new languages), and it would be great if they could try to translate the interface on the same wiki, but Betawiki is also for already existing languages. I'm translating system messages into Icelandic not because I'm starting a new Wiki, but because I want Wikipedia's interface to be fully translated. --Steinninn 00:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]