Create NonFreeWiki as a parallel to Wikimedia Commons
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About 18 months ago, I started a proposal for a NonFreeWiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NonFreeWiki as a parallel to Wikimedia Commons. The idea is to centralise the 2.4 million unfree files that are being used in 155 content wikis, so that there is better regulation. So far 16 other people have expressed support at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NonFreeWiki/supporters&oldid=12977931
I haven't had much time to work on this until recently, but I'd like to test out the ideas in a demo wiki.

The subdomain could be nonfree.wikimedia.org or fairuse.wikimedia.org or uncommons.wikimedia.org.

Initially:

read and edit by anybody
account creation by anybody clicking on "create an account"
email notification to be switched on
extensions would be the same as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
namespaces would be the same as the standard ones at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces
file upload disabled except sysops
no unusual file types in line with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types

Thank you in advance.

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Mentioned Here: T108167: Create labs project for NonFreeWiki
T76375: [DO NOT USE] New Labs project requests (tracking) [superseded by #cloud-vps-project-requests]

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Cromium created this task.Aug 5 2015, 2:46 PM

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Aklapper renamed this task from NonFreeWiki to Create NonFreeWiki as a parallel to Wikimedia Commons.Aug 5 2015, 4:18 PM

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It's not clear to me who'd need to approve a new core project type wiki.

Krenair added a project: Multimedia.Aug 5 2015, 4:19 PM

I suspect it would have been a Sister Projects Committee (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee) but this is not likely to be ready for a while. Beyond that I couldn't guess who to turn to.

Josve05a subscribed.Aug 5 2015, 5:38 PM

It looks like what you want is actually a test wiki for demoing purposes. If so, a Labs instance would be better suited for this purpose, imo. See http://structured-wikiquote.wmflabs.org/ for an example. 16 supports is definitely not enough for opening a new project and opening new projects also needs approval by the Board, iirc.

Sorry, I forgot to provide instructions on how to request new projects on Labs. See T76375 and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Labs-vagrant

Done at T108167

Aklapper closed this task as a duplicate of T108167: Create labs project for NonFreeWiki.Aug 6 2015, 11:01 AM

This is not a duplicate of T108167. T108167 is to open a ~~Tools~~Toollabs-~~site~~ project, while this was for a new wiki. Different tasks, different things.

In T108030#1514182, @Josve05a wrote:

T108167 is to open a Tools-site

No, it's about creating a Labs project. Anyway. :)

In T108030#1514182, @Josve05a wrote:

T108167 is to open a ~~Tools~~Toollabs-~~site~~ project

In T108030#1514320, @Aklapper wrote:

No, it's about creating a Labs project.

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