Dear James, In general the idea sounds interesting, and Wikitravel is certainly one of the notable wiki community projects. But I am not sure whether Wikitravel (or the content it provides) fit into the scope of Wikimedia. Is it really 'educational' content?
Kind regards Ziko 2012/4/9 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>: > The core group of editors at Wikitravel are interested in joining a WMF run > "Wiki Travel Guide". A proposal for creating such a project has been > outlined here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide and would > develop from the content currently at wikitravel.org > > *Wikitravel is currently in 20 languages and in English contains more than > 25,000 articles. The content is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Site > readership statistics are not released by Internet Brands, but for travel > information the site is consistently highly ranked. It is the largest and > most popular freely-licensed, user-contributed travel guide collection. > Alexa.com ranks it as the 2637 most popular site on the web with a global > reach of 0.0602%. The interwiki links between Wikipedia and Wikitravel > highlight the close historic cooperation between the editors of both sites, > where users adding travelogue style content to Wikipedia have often been > directed to add the content to Wikitravel. > > Benefits for the WMF: > 1) Increase the scope of content offered by the WMF > 2) Increase the number of Wikimedians > 3) Increase the volume of content for fundraising > 4) Provide a separate repository for important travel and tourism > information, some of which currently is contained within Wikipedia articles. > > Benefits for travel content: > 1) Reputation of the WMF would increase the editor base. > 2) Remove the conflicts between the commercial decisions of the current > hosting provider and the community. > 3) Would increase the reliability of the site, which is currently running > old MediaWiki versions, on poorly performing infrastructure. > > Benefits for both: > 1) Would make it easier for the two sites to direct editors to the better > site for the content in question, leading to better focus within articles. > 2) Combining the image repositories at Wikimedia Commons would result in > greater and easier image availability for both Wikipedia and the travel > site, and an increase in both contributors and images.* > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
