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: 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 would have to begin from the very >> >> beginning. In this case it would be best to go through Incubator. >> >> >> > >> >> That's not precisely true. With enough determination, the content can >> be extracted from Wikitravel, even now. Hell, even copy-paste would >> work to some extent. >> >> But I remember that the archive team said they had a dump from August >> 2011 for all the Wikitravel languages and private persons might have >> more recent dumps. Can't those be used? > >> 2012/10/17 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>: >> > So, the predictable effect will be that mid-size wikitravel language >> > versions which did not moved to wikivoyage before August will rather >> > stay on Wikitravel. There will be hard to find volunteers in these >> > langauges ready to go through painful and time consuming process of >> > incubator as there is already working wiki that anyone can join >> > without any obstacles... >> >> I don't think this is necessarily true, even if it is an important >> risk and one of the reasons I've asked the questions originally. For >> instance, the Romanian Wikitravel was virtually dead, but some people >> from ro.wp expressed interest in contributing to the new site if it >> has a Romanian version. > > > It's correct that the dumps of all languages from August 2012 are available > at Wikivoyage saved as XML files. > > But these files could not be used to publish them immediately because they > contain a lot of spam which must be removed by the community before. > But the communities are missing. > > In some cases it makes sense to think about establishing a language > branch from scratch. > > See also the interest list at > > http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Interest_in_starting_a_new_language_version > > at least five authors and admins should show their interest in helping to > migrate the wikis.
I personally don't see much value in starting a new project on Wikivoyage now (except perhaps to avoid the Incubator, which is a more bureaucratic process). One of the reasons people did not contribute to Wikitravel was that it was "different" (e.g. different accounts, extensions etc.) Strainu _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
