Wikivoyage-l January 2013

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Wikimania 2013
by James Heilman 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Applications to present at Wikimania in 2013 are now open. It would be great if one or two people presented on what Wikivoyage is, how we came to be a Wikimedia project etc. http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Press releases
by Mattias Sweden 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

I have added a swedish version (still working on it) of the press release and added a link on the english press release page. I have also modified the english press release a bit, for example moving the WMF bit further down. Most commercial press releases give the good news first and then add the company-related blurb further down. If you disagree, feel free to change it for something better! :-) Cheers, Mattias

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Who is responsible for the Google doc email notification form link on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage ?
by roger＠rogerchrisman.com 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi all, I asked the below question on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikivoyage#Sign_here but it has gone unnoticed by whoever might know the answer. Could someone who knows about this email notification Google doc form please answer there? I'm concerned the form may be out of date or have been forgotten by it's owner. I'd like to remind whoever is responsible for it that he probably should send the notification on January 15, if that is to be our official launch announcement date. Thanks! /Roger == Sign here == Intro section [on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage] contains a "sign here" request as follows: :'''''We are in beta'''—to be emailed when images are in place and we are ready for publicizing, [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFERkNlVElnMFVJbjdYeV… '''sign here'''] Is that "sign here" out of date? Is the email going to be sent when we officially launch on January 15, 2013? Who is in charge of this? --[[User:Rogerhc|Rogerhc]] ([[User talk:Rogerhc|talk]]) 02:20, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikivoyage/ru/Викивояж Wikivoyage/ru/Викигид
by roger＠rogerchrisman.com 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi All, I am new to Meta, not sure how it is supposed to work with translations and support multiple languages. If I am wrong here, please correct me. Based on my experience at WT Shared and based on reading https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Interlanguage_links I think it works like this: English page name -- some page in English English page name/ru -- that page translated into Russian There seems to be a long history, near as I can tell, on Meta of allowing pages to be created and named in any language and not necessarily requiring them to follow the above naming convention. However egalitarian that may be, I feel it creates and promotes community dysfunction on Meta. I am not going to be able to change Meta's dysfunctional elements, I expect. However, to keep our Wikivoyage space on Meta functional, I suggest that we only permit subpages of Wikivoyage on Meta be either in English or translations of English pages on subpages of those English language pages using the English language page's name plus appropriate language code, eg Wikivoyage/English page name/ru. This is how we did it on WT Shared. Shall we continue to do it this way? Today I am cleaning up our Wikivoyage home on Meta, specifically the subpages of Wikivoyage. (I have transcluded a generated list of all our subpages at bottom of our home page on Meta, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage.) Among the subpages listed there I find these two that do not see to follow the above mentioned format for naming translated pages. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/ru/Викивояж http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/ru/Викигид I believe the fix is to move these two pages to the English name of the pages with /ru appended to them instead of using Russian page names. Could one of our Russian/English speaking members have a look at moving those pages please? Or, if those two pages are really about ru.wikivoyage and don't really effect the other language versions, perhaps someone who speaks Russian could move them to ru.wikivoyage? Thanks, Roger

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