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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, 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 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

Sasak Wiktionary
Arakanese Wiktionary

Wikiquote

Betawi 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

2026

9 March 2026: Karai-Karai Wikipedia has been created.
29 January 2026: Nawat Wikipedia has been created.
26 January 2026: Jju Wikipedia has been created.

2025

26 November 2025: Toki Pona Wikipedia has been created.
28 October 2025: Minangkabau Wikisource and Nigerian Pidgin Wikiquote have been created.
18 September 2025: Malay Wikiquote has been created.
4 September 2025: Betawi Wiktionary and Minangkabau Wikibooks have been created.
3 September 2025: Standard Moroccan Tamazight Wiktionary has been created.
29 August 2025: Arakanese Wikipedia has been created.
24 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.