2012/10/17
Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze(a)googlemail.com>om>:
> 2012/10/17 Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk>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 <polimerek(a)gmail.com>om>:
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_versiā¦
at least five authors and admins should show their interest in helping to
migrate the wikis.
Roland