The old wikivoyage will stay running. I am not expecting all the readers to switch right away. We at least need to put this in a work space at the WMF.

James Heilman

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Roland Unger <roland.unger@soziologie.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> 2012/11/4 James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com>:
> > @ Juergen Why can we not start in "beta"? Once things are live it
> will be
> > much easier to bring on more people to address the image issue.
>
> Just in converse. This is 2012, not Wikipedia in 2001. Quality
> attracts editors, while red links will deter them. Removing images
> from the articles would really be a shame.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.

This is really correct. We must attract new readers and authors. This
can be done only with a well working site. And we have other
competitors, so we must show that we are better. Red links are
the opposite to a good site.

Yours Roland

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