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
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
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
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, 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
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 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
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
I've been slow to come around to this one myself, but in the last day or so
I've realized that it really is the same thing with a new name. They going
to keep this up until we get tired, I suppose.
So let's not get tired.
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