2017-12-22 10:16 GMT+01:00 Oliver Stegen <[email protected]>:

> I can understand MF's concern. However, I looked at some articles as well
> (and got some help through GoogleTranslate), and the content about travel
> advice seems to be there, e.g. in https://incubator.wikimedia.
> org/wiki/Wy/ps/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_
> %D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8D or https://incubator.wikimedia.
> org/wiki/Wy/ps/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86 (picking two of the four
> random articles I chose; the other two also had lots of text). Judging by
> the translations, some of the content is pretty weird but that may be more
> due to machine translation than actual problems.
>

Yes, there are some articles that look OK or even better. But that's only a
part of the 89. And frankly 89 in total since February 2013 (<
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wy/ps&wiki=incubatorwiki>)
is not really that much. It wouldn't be too hard to double or triple the
number.

> We definitely want to encourage the ps:wy contributors to create more
> actual travel-related content but approval may be one way of doing so.
> While 89 articles is not very much yet, I just checked the statistics of Wy
> in other languages. Most have 2-3,000 articles but Hindi, for example, only
> has 54 (https://hi.wikivoyage.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%
> B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Statistics), yet is a subdomain in its own right. I
> could live with approving ps:wy.
>

Oh my. Why did we approve that? o.O


> Fwiw,
> Oliver
>
> On 22-Dec-17 09:19, MF-Warburg wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I am against approval at the moment. While the project is currently in the
> 4th month where it has >3 active contributors, there are only 89 articles.
> I just looked at a random selection and many of them don't have much
> content. Some consisted mostly of pictures. I don't think it's appropriate
> to launch an own subdomain in this state. Therefore I would prefer to wait
> for some more time.
>
> 2017-12-15 16:37 GMT+01:00 Steven White <[email protected]>:
>
>> 2017 has been the most successful year for new projects since 2013. Ten
>> projects have been created, two more are in language verification, and one
>> more is awaiting the end of a week's formal notice on Meta.
>>
>>
>> The last project I am presenting for approval during 2017 is Pashto
>> Wikivoyage
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikivoyage_Pashto>.
>> I marked it "eligible" today. In fact, it is ready for approval.  Satdeep
>> Gill had a bit of a look last week, and he seemed to think the project team
>> was doing good work.
>>
>>
>> Seven-day clock starts now.  Thank you.
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
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