Wikivoyage-l December 2012

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Interwiki bots
by Yaroslav M. Blanter 16 Dec '12

16 Dec '12

Is anybody interested in running interwiki bots in Wikivoyage projects? On Russian Wikivoyage, we have adopted the standard bot policy (and became the first Wikivoyage project to do so), but we do not have anybody in the project who has an interwiki bot. Today, I had to fix manually interwiki links in a number of articles on Russian, English, German, and Dutch versions, and found them pretty much in the state of disorder. Cheers Yaroslav

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Official launch of Wikivoyage
by James Heilman 16 Dec '12

16 Dec '12

Hey All We are looking at Jan 15, 2013 as an official launch date for Wikivoyage. We are looking at options for both on wiki and off wiki media outreach. There is still work to be done with respect to moving images over from the old site but hopefully things will be good enough. We are a wiki of course which means all are invited to fix any issues they see. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Wikivoyage databases not working properly
by Roland Unger 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi folks, since several hours Wikivoyage sites or at least the databases are not working properly (at least the German, Italian, and English branches). The wikis are very slow. What happens? Roland

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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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Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
by Erik Moeller 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi all, I'm curious what folks here think about making some noise about the two most recent additions to the Wikimedia family around January or February. Wikivoyage is still finishing up the beta phase (image transfers, logo import etc.) this month, and Wikidata isn't live as a repository yet -- but we could set a target date that would work for both projects. What I'm imagining is an actual banner on Wikimedia projects announcing the launch of both Wikivoyage and Wikidata, pointing to a landing page explaining what these projects are, how to participate, etc. That page could be drafted on Meta. Then interested folks would visit the projects to learn more and get involved. Wikimedia projects obviously have an enormous reach and I think this could help create awareness and build community -- but it could also be an unwelcome influx in the early stages. This could be regulated by running a banner only for logged in users, or x% of readers. Thoughts? Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Internet Brands trolling
by Powers 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Internet Brands, or at least IBobi, has decided to start trolling Wikivoyage, bringing trumped-up charges against a community member, then engaging in IBobi's usual modus operandi: claiming we're not following our own policies, crying persecution, and the same stuff he pulled on Meta-Wiki and en.wikipedia. An IP address registered to Internet Brands has continued the abuse after IBobi was blocked. It seems like this might be relevant in WMF's current legal case against IB. Powers &8^]

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Wikitravel template gone
by Jani Patokallio 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

It's the end of an era: Wikipedia's {{wikitravel}} template is gone, and has been replaced with {{wikivoyage-inline}}. Now we just need to get our house in order, so we can make the new template visible! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_No… Cheers, -jani

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