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" <[email protected]>:
> 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 do about it. As you know, one of the ideas which has been floated > is to attempt to join WMF. One of the parties to that discussion started a > new Wiki proposal on Meta, and a discussion here. > > I'm glad to have the chance to jump in before the discussion gets very far > along. There are some important points to be made: > > 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 > it's the traveller's that counts. 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 probably just give up this > line of exploration and go find another solution. > > I personally don't think that a creative interpretation of the concept of > NPOV to make it look like TPOV would do, but of course I'm just one voice. > Still there are others who feel even more strongly on this point. > > Second, this is a fairly old and established community, with its own > habits, mores, etc. As with other communities it makes some sense perhaps > to learn about ours a bit before visiting. I think some of our fellow > travellers are a bit concerned about being swamped by the shear size of the > communities involved in other WMF projects (Wikipedia) and rightly so. They > worry that the travel guide community runs a chance of quickly losing > editorial control, and that this will lead not to the desired > consolidation, but rather more unhealthy splintering in the collaborative > travel guide space. > > All in all I think there's a pretty good chance that a WMF travel guide > Wiki would stand a good chance at attracting a large part of the community > under the right circumstances. But - it's important to recognize that that > community already exists if one wants to attract it. > > thanks! > > -mark > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
