On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:45 -0600, James Heilman wrote:
@Yaroslov
1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT
and
WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merging June 9th
in
Germany
2) Wikimedia's mission is to provide freely available educational
content I
am not sure which "WMF principles" you do not see such a site as
being
compatible with? You mention that a good travel guide selects
information.
A good encyclopedia sections information as well. I am not sure why
we
would encounter any differences? We deal with spam here on Wikipedia
all
the time.
2a) Not catering to a specific audience is one of the criticisms of
Wikipedia. The proposed travel guide would write for a general
audience.
Wikipedia has written for a general audience with some success.
I actually do not have an opinion on whether Wikitravel should or
should not be accepted as a WMF prtoject (I am currently leaning to the
opinion it should). I just pointed out obvious problems. I maintain a
travel guide website since 2004, and I know the issues are not so easy
to resolve, especially the audience. This is why they have so many
printed guidebook series IRL, and this is why I only used two or three
of these series in my life (and other travelers use something else and
under no circumstances would use what I use). These issues should be
analyzed very carefully before the actual decision has been made.
Cheers
Yaroslav