Wikivoyage-l November 2012

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Set up your mobile main page
by Erik Moeller 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi folks, thanks to the WMF mobile team, http://en.m.wikivoyage.org/ and other language versions should work now. The automatic redirect (causing your phone to go the mobile site when you go to en.wikivoyage.org) isn't set up yet, but is in progress. Note that MaxSem (one of our mobile team members) set up the mobile Main Page for English, but the community should improve further on this initial configuration, and the same needs to be done in other languages. It's really easy to configure a Main Page in your language. Essentially, it's a matter of adding a selector ID in the right places of the wikitext of the Main Page. See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#How_do_I_for… (This is necessary because Main Pages typically are formatted for large screen sizes and can't easily be converted into a mobile view.) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Stats for Wikivoyage
by Erik Zachte 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Wikivoyage reports have been integrated into wikistats. One thing that is missing is page views. We will start to collect those asap. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/Sitemap.htm Feedback is welcome. If there any issues let me know. Erik Zachte

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Open street maps
by James Heilman 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Wondering if all have see this WMF calls for more OSM involvement: the Wikimedia Foundation has announced its intention to develop a Tile Map Service from OpenStreetMap for Wikimedia sites. They also called for a "face-to-face meetup/hackfest [for] geodata/mapping related development work [to be held] sometime around Feb/March 2013," where the WMF would offer sponsorships for "key developers" to attend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-11-26/Techno… -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Where we are at
by James Heilman 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hey All The NYTs has asked where we are at with going live. Can someone send me an update / time line to pass along? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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First dumps available
by Erik Moeller 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

As some of you have already noticed, Wikivoyage is now part of the regular database dumps production process, so text dumps can be downloaded here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dewikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/frwikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/itwikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/nlwikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ruwikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikivoyage/20121118/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/svwikivoyage/20121119/ This should help in case there's a need for another fork. ;-) Please let us know on this list if you experience any issues: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Wikivoyage-l] [Wikimedia-l] A place for project wide discussions
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Stefan Fussan, 16/11/2012 13:27: > I know, there is the meta wiki. But I am not sure. Maybe its too meta. And > the discoussion page or a Wikivoyager's Lounge may be too small. Too small? > Ok... the > set of meta articles can be placed in anywhere the Incubator. Meta articles? If it's what I think you mean, incubator is absolutely not the place. > But the > remaining stuff? Maybe a separate Namespace for the WMF projects at Meta, > maybe a wiki like our general: > > Any ideas? > > I am going to ask the communities on their traveller's pub site as well. As I already wrote to Wikivoyage-l, I've already imported all the relevant pages from general to meta-wiki: general was an extremely small wiki, so it fits perfectly well in our usual standard of a few subpages with their talk pages, a namespace doesn't seem needed. Nemo -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Wikivoyage pages on Meta-Wiki Data: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:25:05 +0100 Mittente: Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> A: Wikivoyage Mailing List <wikivoyage-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> I've moved [[Travel Guide]] to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage per talk request. Now https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikivoyage should be the main discussion venue for meta-(cross-language-)issues in Wikivoyage. As Meta-Wiki replaces Wikivoyage general in this role, I've also imported a few dozens pages which seemed still relevant to the new context or still active, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wikivoyage/ and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikivoyage The most important pages in this moment would seem to be https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/New_language_versions and all https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Migration/New_policies subpages. I hope this will help speed up the process. Please help cleaning up and updating the imported pages and let me know if you need more of them; I didn't find anything of persistent interest on wikivoyage tech, except the documentation for extensions which seems already superseded by new pages on mediawiki.org. Nemo

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How to do?
by Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

I wonder how we could import the data from WikiTravel in Portuguese. Apparently the files have been exported, there would need to be deposited in pt.wikivoyage.org, we ask a programmer Lusophone do since the WMF will no longer do this work, and there is an interested community. Only want to know the steps to follow. And'll document so that other interested communities can also do. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argenton(a)gmail.com +55 11 97 97 18 884

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Wikivoyage and Open Street Map
by Nasir Khan 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hi, Wikivoyage is focused on places to travel, it could be a single building and could be a whose city. So we should be more serious about geo tagging. For indicating a region now we are using a point. It is ok in some cases but for most of the cases it is not that helpful. Open Street Map could be a good options (read few previous discussions on this topic), should not we give more focus here? * -- Nasir Khan Saikat <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>*

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Local uploads by language
by Erik Moeller 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

There's a helpful table here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EDP#Wikivoyage which lists out which Wikivoyage wikis want local uploads enabled, and which EDPs currently exist. Remember, per our licensing policy, an EDP (basically a "fair use policy") should be in place for wikis with local uploads. All freely licensed files need to go to Commons. Please help vet this table so we can adjust the configuration settings accordingly. The local thumbnails issue on en.wikivoyage.org should be fixed now and other wikis will follow shortly. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Granting administrator status
by Powers 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Here's a dumb question. As a bureaucrat on English Wikivoyage, I can make users into Administrators, but I cannot remove that status. Now, I don't know that we've ever had to do that, but technically we do have an inactivity clause. Is there a reason that Admin status can't be removed once granted? Powers &8^]

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