Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle/FAQs

Community review of the draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle is open from 13 May to 23 June 2024. You are invited to review of the procedure and share your thoughts on the talk page. You are also welcome to request a conversation and share your thoughts during Talking:2024 conversations. We look forward to talking with you. – Victoria, Billinghurst, Esra'a, Galahad, Kasyap, Lorenzo, Mike, Nat, Noé, Rosie, and Sj.

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Why is the term “Sibling Projects” used here?[edit]

The term “Sister Project” has historically been used to describe all the publicly available wikis (“Wikimedia Projects”) operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and others. Some community members have also used the term “Sister Project” in the context of language versions of the same wiki, such as English Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, etc., or Vietnamese Wikisource, Catalan Wikisource, etc. Still, other community members have interpreted “Sister Projects” as synonymous with “WikiProjects”, such as English:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history or Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings.

To address the confusion and to disambiguate the terms, a working term - “Sibling Projects” - will be used to distinguish separate content projects (wikis) from language variants of the same content project. Under this naming scheme, Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikidata are “Sibling Projects”. Thus, the French Wikisource and Polish Wikisource would be “language versions (French and Polish) of the same Sibling Project (Wikisource)”. This is a working terminology, and it might change.