Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we all agreed that the existing languages for Wikivoyage should start without any interference of us and that new languages should start through the normal process because from now they are just like any other new project in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Strainu
2012/10/17 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we all agreed that the existing languages for Wikivoyage should start without any interference of us and that new languages should start through the normal process because

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Deryck Chan
On 17 October 2012 09:16, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: 2012/10/17 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: 2012/10/17 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we all agreed that the existing languages for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/10/17 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: 2012/10/17 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: 2012/10/17 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we all agreed that the existing languages for Wikivoyage should start

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:44:49 +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we all agreed that the existing languages for Wikivoyage should start without any interference of us and that new languages should start through the normal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Juergen Fenn
2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk: I think Strainu is referring to languages that exist on Wikitravel but not Wikivoyage. Probably a practical question: As Wikitravel closed the API in August, there is probably no more data that Wikivoyage could rescue from the project than now is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk: On 17 October 2012 09:16, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: 2012/10/17 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: 2012/10/17 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: This has been discussed in the language committee. In the committee we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/10/17 Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com: 2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk: I think Strainu is referring to languages that exist on Wikitravel but not Wikivoyage. Probably a practical question: As Wikitravel closed the API in August, there is probably no more data

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Juergen Fenn
2012/10/17 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com: Probably a practical question: As Wikitravel closed the API in August, there is probably no more data that Wikivoyage could rescue from the project than now is available in Wikivoyage. If a language community needs a fresh start in Wikivoyage it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Roland Unger
2012/10/17 Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com: 2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk: I think Strainu is referring to languages that exist on Wikitravel but not Wikivoyage. Probably a practical question: As Wikitravel closed the API in August, there is probably

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Strainu
2012/10/17 Roland Unger roland.un...@soziologie.uni-halle.de: 2012/10/17 Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com: 2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk: I think Strainu is referring to languages that exist on Wikitravel but not Wikivoyage. Probably a practical question:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, From my perspective, what is relevant is that we do not want to interfere with languages that exist in Wikitravel. It is quite likely that most of these languages are quite good from a localisation point of view. What makes sense if several languages are not in Wikivoyage yet, we can extend

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
And Portuguese WikiTravel? Which has nearly 3000 articles, ie more than WikiTravel in Spanish, which also is not listed, and has more than ru and sv, which were imported. And updates are occurring. On 17 October 2012 08:27, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/17 Roland Unger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Roland Unger
And Portuguese WikiTravel? Which has nearly 3000 articles, ie more than WikiTravel in Spanish, which also is not listed, and has more than ru and sv, which were imported. And updates are occurring. There is up to now no community (5 persons) who helps migrating the content. See:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
Now, we have five :D On 17 October 2012 10:29, Roland Unger roland.un...@soziologie.uni-halle.de wrote: And Portuguese WikiTravel? Which has nearly 3000 articles, ie more than WikiTravel in Spanish, which also is not listed, and has more than ru and sv, which were imported. And

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Erik Moeller wrote: Hi folks, a quick update on the launch of a travel project under the WMF umbrella, and the import of the existing Wikivoyage site. 3 3 3 sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Language Engineering team 2012-09-17 16:30 UTC

2012-10-17 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF)
Hello, Starting in 20 minutes from now. Regards, Srikanth L On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF) slakshma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, You're invited to the IRC office hours with the Language Engineering team[1] at the Wikimedia Foundation. Date:

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Bon voyage, Jay

2012-10-17 Thread Tilman Bayer
Forwarding, as this doesn't yet seem to have made it through from the Announce list. (Possibly because of the HTML format. The message can also be read at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-October/000500.html .) -- Forwarded message -- From: Geoff

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-17 Thread John Vandenberg
On Oct 15, 2012 3:36 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: James Heilman, 14/10/2012 22:18: Thematic organizations have the same amount of authority over content on Wikipedia as chapters. To spell this out clearly that means NONE. One does not put these sorts of details in a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meeting on Monday with Group Contacts for WM IRC channels

2012-10-17 Thread John Vandenberg
Is there a log of this meeting? John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Oct 15, 2012 5:15 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings, For those who might not have seen the announcements in #wikimedia-ops and other IRC channels: There will be a meeting with the Group Contacts