Category talk:New

When is a wiki's status no longer New? When it is three months old? Seven months old? --EarthFurst 19:45, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

I agree, it's a silly cat. "A wiki that's just gone live with no content" - that's how they all start. Huw Powell 23:00, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

Yes, all wiki start out that way. I suppose we could leave a wiki status as "New" indefinitely, until something happens. Until it would be more accurate to call it some other Category:Wiki Status -- perhaps "Active" or "Spammed" or "Inactive" or "Dead". What do you think we should do? --DavidCary 23:15, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

I'd like to keep New category. I think it is a reasonable way of letting people know of a wiki that relatively New and is thus probably a wiki they haven't looked at and probably needs more contributions. I was thinking of taking Apologetics Wiki and adding it to a birth category (perhaps 2009 March births?)[1]. I think a wiki should lose New status when (a) after seven months (so Apologetics Wiki would lose its New status in November (1 month old in April, 2 months old in May, 3 in June, 4 in July, 5 in Aug, 6 in Sept and 7 in October) or (b) it gets big enough (more than 100 articles?) --EarthFurst 01:58, 25 October 2009 (EDT)

I like the "birth" (or founding?) cat idea. It doesn't require updating - stuff that is in recent "founding date" cats is new. Huw Powell 18:46, 25 October 2009 (EDT)

I find it useful to let people know that a wiki is new. I like the idea of adding a wikis birthday, (see WikiBirthday.org. If we keep the new status - then yea, in x months it should be replaced by another. MarkDilley

I see the "New" category as being distinct from "Dormant". Many new wikis might appear to be dormant, primarily because they haven't caught on yet. Of course, some may never become very active. I think it's a useful definition to let people know that it may not have a lot of activity or content yet. The status probably should change to "Active" or "Dormant" after a suitable period has passed. Of course, that would require someone to monitor the listing or monitor the "New" category. In practice, I suspect that the entries will only be updated in a haphazard fashion. --MarvelZuvembie 13:41, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

Vote on how to define "new"

Proposal to define "new" as 6 months or less, from the day the wiki went online. Vote (for, against, or conditional):

-- (Voting for) Lumenos 12:23, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

How to know when a wiki went online?

How will we know the day the wiki first went online? Lumenos 12:23, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

We could usually tell by the earliest date in the history of the mainpage but I think that disappears if the mainpage is deleted and recreated. Lumenos 12:23, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

The WayBackMachine at archive.org could be used to verify an earlier date, but not all sites are archived there. Lumenos 12:23, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

If it has its own domain we could go by the date of the domain registration (enter the website name here) but this doesn't mean the wiki was up at that time. Lumenos 12:23, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

Add the FondedIn category

If you add the information when the wiki was founded, everybody will be able to remove new, when this predicate seems to be out-dated. Y good approach on WikiMedia-based wikis is to look at the history of the main page. Have a look at Category:Wiki Age. --Wolf | talk 03:58, 11 November 2009 (EST)