Now, we have five :D
On 17 October 2012 10:29, Roland Unger <roland.unger@soziologie.uni-halle.de
wrote:
And Portuguese WikiTravel? Which has nearly 3000 articles, ie more than WikiTravel in Spanish,
which
also is not listed, and has more than ru and sv, which were imported. And updates are occurring.
There is up to now no community (5 persons) who helps migrating the content.
See:
http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Interest_in_starting_a_new_language_versio...
Roland
On 17 October 2012 08:27, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2012/10/17 Roland Unger roland.unger@soziologie.uni-halle.de:
2012/10/17 Juergen Fenn schneeschmelze@googlemail.com: > 2012/10/17 Deryck Chan deryckchan@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 polimerek@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_versio...
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
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