Maybe a new system of "incubation" would be helpful. For example, one could start the requested wikis on their future domain (xxx.wikipedia.org / xxx.wiktionary.org etc.pp.) right from the request, with at least two voluntary experienced supervisors on each (one can supervise more than one of these of course) who get sysop and crat rights and stay there as long as it takes to get the approval of LangCom for an independent wiki (that is, after translating the most important parts of the MW software and that stuff). With email notification, the community of the test project can easily reach the supervisors and they of course should be in the wiki on a daily basis to look that everything is ok there. In the best case, they could try to attract more native speakers of the language to work there. Then a closing request for a wiki that became inactive would just be a request for supervision of that wiki. That means, the wiki stays where it is, but gets two supervisors who take on the administrative tasks and start some promotion maybe. Well, it's just an idea.
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