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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

Wiktionary

Moroccan Arabic Wiktionary

Wikibooks

Central Bikol Wikibooks

Wikiquote

Hausa Wikiquote

Wikivoyage

Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage
Indonesian Wikivoyage

These will likely stay here:

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

How to start a new test wiki

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.

Some important rules:

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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Naat mbwuot mi̱ di̱ yong huni

24 September 2024: Gorontalo Wikiquote, Komering Wikipedia, Madurese Wiktionary, Mossi Wikipedia and Shan Wikinews have been created.
6 August 2024: West Coast Bajau Wikipedia has been created.
26 July 2024: Czech Wikivoyage has been created.
21 June 2024: Batak Mandailing Wikipedia has been created.
28 May 2024: Central Dusun Wikipedia has been created.
24 April 2024: Betawi Wikipedia, Igala Wikipedia, Wikisource Burmese, Kusaal Wikipedia, Georgian Wikisource, Karakalpak Wiktionary, Malay Wikisource 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 A̱gban lyen ma̱sa̱t wu	Wiktionary A̱gbang swáng a̱lyiat ma̱ng ta̱si̱rut	Wikisource Tutunkwaa̱mbwat kyangmami-ma̱sa̱t	Wikiquote Kpa̱m tityan
Wikibooks Nkwaa̱mbwat-lyuut ma̱ng nkyangfang ma̱sa̱t	Wikinews Nkhang kyangmami-ma̱sa̱t	Wikiversity Nkyang myiam ma̱ng naat mbwuot ma̱sa̱t	Wikivoyage A̱kwak a̱son a̱cyet a̱zalang ma̱sa̱t wu
Wikispecies Kwaa̱mbwat-a̱myim susotbishyi	Wikidata Kuntyin lyen ma̱sa̱t hu	Wikimedia Commons A̱swang nyinyiit shei nkhang nang á̱ ku ka̱u a̱ni	Meta-Wiki Kwak ta̱m Wukimedia a̱son