Last modified: 2011-12-27 20:08:12 UTC
ten.wikipedia.org was originally opened as a non-content related project by myself, in order to facilitate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary celebrations. Per a poll on Meta,[1] there is clearly consensus to close the wiki soon since there is very little editing and the anniversary year is almost over. There's no hurry, but I wanted to put in the bug request now since it's pretty obvious this is desirable. The exact configuration desired is just to InitialiseSettings.php to make it read-only except for Stewards. 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_wikipedia_ten
Please be sure the content remains accessible in some way since it contains lot of useful information. Either lock the wiki to be readonly, or transfer the content, or dump it at the time of closing completely and store the dump.
Closure requests should follow the policy <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy> and go through LangCom/Board review. Since the consensus was clear, and there actually is inactivity with vandalism/spam, I don't want to impose unnecessary bureaucracy. (In reply to comment #1) > Please be sure the content remains accessible in some way since it contains lot > of useful information. Either lock the wiki to be readonly, or transfer the > content, or dump it at the time of closing completely and store the dump. Closing is making it impossible to edit. Deleting is something else.
(In reply to comment #2) > Closure requests should follow the policy > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy> and go through > LangCom/Board review. Since the consensus was clear, and there actually is > inactivity with vandalism/spam, I don't want to impose unnecessary bureaucracy. Yes, it is important to note this is a special case, since like outreach.wikimedia.org, tenwiki was created without Board or LangCom approval. T(he language code the site uses is for a language with no literate tradition.)
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Closure requests should follow the policy > > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy> and go through > > LangCom/Board review. Since the consensus was clear, and there actually is > > inactivity with vandalism/spam, I don't want to impose unnecessary bureaucracy. > > Yes, it is important to note this is a special case, since like > outreach.wikimedia.org, tenwiki was created without Board or LangCom approval. > T(he language code the site uses is for a language with no literate tradition.) I think that we should move this to ten.wikimedia.org just to make sure that no one's confused.
I've added to closed.dblist for the time being
It seems the lock is ineffective by some reason. In https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix tenwiki is marked as locked but the editing is not really disabled. (see http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights)
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Close_a_wiki It seems there must be some extra steps, nothing documents how we get them to show as editing restricted etc
(In reply to comment #6) > It seems the lock is ineffective by some reason. In > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix tenwiki is marked as locked > but the editing is not really disabled. (see > http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights) You are able to edit because editing on closed wikis is in fact *restricted to stewards*.
Thanks, Reedy, it works now. It was probably related to groupOverrides. To SPQRobin no, not because I am steward. The 'edit' right (and other rights) was not removed from '*' usergroup as it is now.
Seems closed to editing now. :) Thanks!
