Incubator:Policy/Test wiki info page

This is an official Incubator policy. You may edit it, but please discuss major changes on the talk page first.

The policy says that, on "Wx/xx", you need to put a template, namely {{test wiki}}.

This page is the documentation of that template and its parameters.

Parameters

Required parameters

• status=open/imported/approved/invalidcode/rejected/tocreate

  Use status=approved1 for projects that have been approved but not yet created and exported

• language= defines both [[wikipedia:{{{language}}} language]] (please check in preview if the link goes right!) and the Meta request (see meta below)
  • (optionally) WP-article for exceptions
  • (optionally) meta-link for exceptions (only subpage, i.e. Wikipedia English so not Requests for new languages/Wikipedia English)

Optional (important) parameters

• meta=yes if it has a request at Meta. If it hasn't, don't use this parameter.
• dir=RTL for a Right-To-Left language (default is LTR, so parameter is in many cases not needed).
• macro=xxx when it is member of a macrolanguage (xxx being to ISO 639 code of the macrolanguage).

Other optional parameters

• mainpage=Wp/en/Main Page if the second part "Main Page" has a Main Page title that has not yet been translated in the "mainpage" system message (translatable on translatewiki:) or if it has a custom name (i.e. not the same as the system message). You can see the current version on MediaWiki:Mainpage/languagecode.
• meta-n=3 - if the meta request is not the first one (e. g. Requests for languages/Wikipedia English 3)
• since=Date – date on which the test was created. Do not use if the test has already been approved.
• If the test has been approved:
  • bug=13264 where the number is the phabricator request to create the wiki.
  • created=Date is the date on which it has been created.
  • before-incubator=yes for wikis which were not yet approved by the Language committee (it's possible that some were on Incubator though)
• importdate for the status toimport: To announce a date for the import

Other cases

In some cases, it is not appropriate to use {{test wiki}}, but rather one of the following templates:

• {{Code-disambig}}
• {{Macrolanguage}}
• {{Retired code}}
• {{Collective code}}
• {{Different code/test}}
• {{Different code/subdomain}}
• {{Wikia}}

To do

• Add support for old (rejected as part of a reform of the request process), although this might not be appropriate anymore..