Hi all,
The naming poll for the Travel Guide site is now open. For the next 14
days, you may be eligible to vote for as many of the proposed names as you
wish. For full details on voting criteria and other process notes as to
how the name will be selected, please see the voting page at
https://m
Alice Wiegand, 23/08/2012 23:55:
And here's a very short note about the next steps:
The board is reviewing the RfC and its talk page over the next week.
We are going to share our thoughts with you soon on the RfC's talk
page. Please feel free to leave comments there, that's still possible
and wil
And here's a very short note about the next steps:
The board is reviewing the RfC and its talk page over the next week.
We are going to share our thoughts with you soon on the RfC's talk
page. Please feel free to leave comments there, that's still possible
and will be read ;-)
Regards, Alice
On
On 23 August 2012 14:56, James Heilman wrote:
> Most of the issues where addressed. And they only way to determine if many
> of the concerns hold water is to simply try it. A travel guide will likely
> be heavily read and edited.
>
> As a comparison their are an approximately an equal number of m
Most of the issues where addressed. And they only way to determine if many
of the concerns hold water is to simply try it. A travel guide will likely
be heavily read and edited.
As a comparison their are an approximately an equal number of medical
articles on Wikipedia to travel articles. Yet the
I see none of the issues raised were really addressed.
Another spam filled, little populated, project then.
*sigh*
Tom
On 23 August 2012 11:53, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 22 August 2012 22:39, Kim Bruning wrote:
> > For those interested, a quick reminder:
> >
> > The travel guide RFC will (soft
On 22 August 2012 22:39, Kim Bruning wrote:
> For those interested, a quick reminder:
>
> The travel guide RFC will (soft) close in 1 hour, 17 minutes as of the
> moment this mail is sent. (At 0:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC))
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
For those interested, a quick reminder:
The travel guide RFC will (soft) close in 1 hour, 17 minutes as of the
moment this mail is sent. (At 0:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC))
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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We're down in the lobby now.
Am 12.07.2012 12:18 schrieb "aude" :
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arne Klempert >wrote:
>
> > Hi James, where exactly are we going to meet? Arne
> >
>
> Is it too hot or would the terrace be okay?
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
>
> > Am 12.07.2012 07:54 schrieb "James
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arne Klempert wrote:
> Hi James, where exactly are we going to meet? Arne
>
Is it too hot or would the terrace be okay?
Cheers,
Katie
> Am 12.07.2012 07:54 schrieb "James Heilman" :
>
> > A travel guide discussion will be taking place today at Wikimania durin
Hi James, where exactly are we going to meet? Arne
Am 12.07.2012 07:54 schrieb "James Heilman" :
> A travel guide discussion will be taking place today at Wikimania during
> lunch. Representatives from Wikivoyage and from the editor community of
> WIkitravel will be hear to answer any questions. A
A travel guide discussion will be taking place today at Wikimania during
lunch. Representatives from Wikivoyage and from the editor community of
WIkitravel will be hear to answer any questions. A request for comment is
ongoing http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
--
Ja
Hey folks,
For those who've been following this thread -- I wanted to let you
know I've posted a comment from the Wikimedia Foundation, on the talk
page for the meta page James made, here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Travel_Guide#Comment_from_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
I pasted the ful
For clarity, by verifiability of sources, what I meant was "we know
where this image came from and know it's freely licensed" - nothing
beyond that
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
> Commons has a policy dealing with neutrality, but it's very different
> than that of, say, the
Commons has a policy dealing with neutrality, but it's very different
than that of, say, the Wikipedias - and is I would think even less
strict than what could reasonably be formulated for a travel guide.
They also have no policy on verifiability, except for requiring
verifiability of sources. Wik
Hoi,
It is not.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 13 April 2012 11:46, Mark Jaroski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:40, Juergen Fenn
> wrote:
>
> > I beg to differ, and I would like to repeat a point that I had raised
> > on Meta yesterday. I think we all agree that travel guides are all
> > about POV?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:40, Juergen Fenn
wrote:
> I beg to differ, and I would like to repeat a point that I had raised
> on Meta yesterday. I think we all agree that travel guides are all
> about POV? Choose this hotel, while better keep away from that one is
> a case in point. This would hard
Am 12. April 2012 20:26 schrieb Samuel Klein :
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski wrote:
>>> We're under the impression that there are
>>> other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
>>> us favourin
On 12 April 2012 21:24, James Heilman wrote:
> With respect to audience, on Wikipedia we write for a general audience yet
> our medical content is still used by 50-70% of practicing physicians.
> Lonely planet lists hotels in different section based on price. On
> Wikipedia we use editorial judgem
With respect to audience, on Wikipedia we write for a general audience yet
our medical content is still used by 50-70% of practicing physicians.
Lonely planet lists hotels in different section based on price. On
Wikipedia we use editorial judgement about what to include and what not to
include. We
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski wrote:
>> We're under the impression that there are
>> other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
>> us favouring approaching WMF have been able to argue that we wou
- What sort of size is the WT community at the moment?
I'll leave it to one of the others to answer that? Ryan?
The English language WT version is the largest and gets around 500-1000
edits each day. There are 69,046 registered users and 48 admins, but on
any given day it's probably fair to
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski wrote:
> We're under the impression that there are
> other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
> us favouring approaching WMF have been able to argue that we wouldn't be
> forced to use it. If that's wrong then we should
>
> > - What are the policies/approach to copyright violations and other issues
> > such as slander, etc?
> >
>
> http://wikitravel.org/shared/Copyleft
>
>
>
I was more looking for the communities approach to hunting down, removing
or otherwise investigating copyright issues. (this is quite an impo
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:39, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence
> currently says:
>
> Opera was invented in Florence.
>
>
> This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply
> be the opinion of the original
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:33, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> p.s. I read your "fair" link with interest - I think that is a good way to
> resolve the issue with clashing of personal experience. However one thing a
> bigger community brings is a difficulty in resolving these problems (or,
> they crop up m
Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence
currently says:
Opera was invented in Florence.
This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply
be the opinion of the original writer. Much of the rest of the historical
section is the same; it
>
> > What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective
> information
> > from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
> > recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction) because I
> > thought it overpriced and boring.
> >
>
>
> > Whilst my vi
We've mainly approached this issue encouraging the different groups of
travellers to add relevant content for their areas. We specifically try to
mix it all in, because we don't want to section anyone off. There was
considerable controversy back in 2005 or so about adding an LBGT section to
the gui
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:04:27 +0200, Mark Jaroski wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41, Thomas Morton
wrote:
So in summary I don't see that there is any real difference in our
stance
on this - it might just need a bit of rethinking.
We'd like to express it as "Traveller's Point of View".
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective information
> from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
> recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction) because I
> thought it overpr
>
> First, NPOV would probably be a deal-breaker. The travel wiki community
> (usually working at Wikitravel) have long used Traveller's Point of View.
> This point of view is not neutral at all, but favours the traveller.
> Hoteliers, restaurateurs, etc. have different points of view, but for us
>
On 4/12/2012 12:04 AM, rupert THURNER wrote:
I am not to deep into this, so please bear with me if it already was
mentioned before: what are the main issues you face with the current
setting?
As with any diverse community different individuals will have different
opinions, but some of the issu
Hi Rupert,
The current hosting provider (who also own a trademark on the site name,
and the right to place advertisements on the site) have become unresponsive
to requests for server maintenance and especially software upgrades,
feature requests, etc.
Speaking for myself, one of the main interest
I am not to deep into this, so please bear with me if it already was
mentioned before: what are the main issues you face with the current
setting?
Am 12.04.2012 08:53 schrieb "Mark Jaroski" :
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a long-standing editor/admin/etc. at Wikitravel, though I've been less
> active in recen
Hi all,
I'm a long-standing editor/admin/etc. at Wikitravel, though I've been less
active in recent years, mainly due to work and family.
I have, however, been participating in discussions among Wikitravel admins
about our dissatisfaction with our current hosting provider, and what we're
going to
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