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Gardening on pilot mode.
Wikispore Basic
is a proposed 2-year test period for
Wikispore
flagship efforts to be hosted as content on the production server. It could be reached from
wikispore.org
, but on the backend would be under a subdomain of an existing project, likely
Wikimedia Incubator
. After this time, the project would be reevaluated, and possibly either promoted to full Sibling Project, retired or refactored elsewhere.
Wikispore Basic's initial phase would be a
GLAM
pilot, it would not include any unconventional MediaWiki extensions.
GLAM pilot
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The initial Wikispore Basic pilot at
glam.incubator.wikimedia.org
would build on a major
GLAM
research project supported by the Canadian government, with Wikispore as its primary place of publication.
Parallel: The History and Archives of Artist-Run Centres in Canada
(Q135767262)
is a 6-year research project to document the history of hundreds of
Canadian artist-run centres
, with its own funding for content and technical work coordinated with Wikimedia NYC. Development for the Canadian project will establish a basis for integration of
wikispore:Art Spore
and related GLAM initiatives, as art and archives have already been the most naturally fruitful areas for Wikispore over the years.
For this pilot, we are in touch with the larger GLAM community and WMF technical staff who can help implement this if it has approval of the relevant decision-makers.
Basic tech background
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This concept has come together as a response to the
public consultation about Wikispore
, and particularly concern from the
Sister Projects Taskforce
that the current implementation of Wikispore has exotic MediaWiki extensions installed that are incompatible with the production server.
The Wikispore implementation on the production server would be complementary to the currently-existing, more technically adventurous, implementation on
Wikimedia Cloud Services
. Wikispore Basic would be
vanilla software
without any unconventional extensions, and could indeed be a testbed for the concept of bundling standard extensions for new wikis.
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