@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.
Hello,
Is it just me or are we all getting email responses out of the original threads?
Best
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
@Yaroslov
- 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
- 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.
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It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in multiple email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the archive: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html
Might be an issue with the list settings?
Thanks, Mike P.S. This project sounds great to me, clearly in-scope for a Wikimedia project.
On 11 Apr 2012, at 20:32, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
Hello,
Is it just me or are we all getting email responses out of the original threads?
Best
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
@Yaroslov
- 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
- 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.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 16:16, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in multiple email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the archive: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html
Might be an issue with the list settings?
It's an issue with the fact that those of us who just joined the list for this discussion didn't have the in-reply-to header set.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:45 -0600, James Heilman wrote:
@Yaroslov
- 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
- 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
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