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Welcome to Wikimedia Incubator!

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:

Arakanese Wikipedia
Minangkabau Wikibooks

These are active and might get their own site soon:

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Betawi Wiktionary

Wikinews

Bangla Wikinews

Wikiquote

Malay Wikiquote
Nigerian Pidgin Wikiquote

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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Current events

2025

25 April 2025: Nupe Wikipedia has been created.
25 February 2025: Sylheti Wikipedia has been created.
19 February 2025: Santali Wiktionary has been created.
30 January 2025: Central Kanuri Wikipedia has been created.

2024

12 December 2024: Tigre Wikipedia has been created.
2 December 2024: Indonesian Wikivoyage has been created.
30 October 2024: Tulu Wiktionary and Tulu Wikisource have been created.
14 October 2024: Obolo Wikipedia, Pannonian Rusyn Wikipedia, Tai Nuea Wikipedia, Iban Wikipedia and Southern Ndebele Wikipedia have been created.
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, and 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 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