Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 16:16, Michael Peel wrote: > It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in > multiple email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the > archive: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html > > Might be an iss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Peel
It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in multiple email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the archive: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html Might be an issue with the list settings? Thanks, Mike P.S. This project sou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:45 -0600, James Heilman wrote: @Yaroslov 1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT and WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merging June 9th in Germany 2) Wikimedia's mission is to provide freely available educational conte

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hello, Is it just me or are we all getting email responses out of the original threads? Best On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, James Heilman wrote: > @Yaroslov > 1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT and > WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread emijrp
2012/4/11 John Vandenberg > I agree that travel content is within the scope. In addition to the > content itself, which helps other people, the process of writing and > communicating travel information is educational for the writer. > > There was a session about WikiTravel on at RCC2011 Canberra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: [snip] > > No Original Research shouldn't be an issue, we already have Wikinews > accepting original reporting. > > Neutral Point of View might be a more delicate area. You probably > couldn't write a travel guide using the same standards of NPO

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:19:05 +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, you are providing a perfect reason why you might contribute to a WMF based travel wiki... No adds Thanks, Gerard Yes, this is actually correct. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, you are providing a perfect reason why you might contribute to a WMF based travel wiki... No adds Thanks, Gerard On 11 April 2012 17:16, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, >> I'd focus on making a better case for h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, I'd focus on making a better case for how it falls within Wikimedia's scope. MZMcBride The scope has been extensively discussed in this thread, and a convincing answer has been given. This answer is that travel is an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
James Heilman wrote: > The Spanish Wikipedia, if I remember correctly, threatened to split off in > 2004 due to Wikipedia having no solid non profit foundation. I don't think you remember correctly at all. The Spanish Wikipedia's history is covered here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread John Vandenberg
I agree that travel content is within the scope. In addition to the content itself, which helps other people, the process of writing and communicating travel information is educational for the writer. There was a session about WikiTravel on at RCC2011 Canberra, where the need to change host was d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Gray
On 10 April 2012 12:59, Thomas Morton wrote: > I use it a lot and many of the pages ramble excessively and complain about > issues without any form of sourcing. In fact most articles lack even the > most basic sourcing; if they came onboard I don't think that state of > affairs could continue, an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread Sarah Stierch
I've been somewhat following this conversation - and this is totally trivial, but, I love WikiTravel, use it whenever I do travel, and actually, it was the first wiki I wrote content for (I used to only do gnomish things on Wikipedia).[1] I still, to this very day, remember the first time I wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Morton
On 10 April 2012 12:48, Peter Coombe wrote: > On 10 April 2012 05:32, Strainu wrote: > > În data de 9 aprilie 2012, 21:17, Ziko van Dijk > > a scris: > >> One might get problems with policies such as NOR and NPOV. I suppose > >> that they should be applied on Wiki Travel Guide, as on Wikipedia,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Coombe
On 10 April 2012 05:32, Strainu wrote: > În data de 9 aprilie 2012, 21:17, Ziko van Dijk > a scris: >> One might get problems with policies such as NOR and NPOV. I suppose >> that they should be applied on Wiki Travel Guide, as on Wikipedia, >> Wikibooks and other Wikimedia sites. > > If using th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-09 Thread Strainu
În data de 9 aprilie 2012, 21:17, Ziko van Dijk a scris: > One might get problems with policies such as NOR and NPOV. I suppose > that they should be applied on Wiki Travel Guide, as on Wikipedia, > Wikibooks and other Wikimedia sites. If using these as they are now would be a precondition for ho