A closer communication between the language versions is very important. That's why the association is applying as a Thematic organisation and the association is about to become more international now. A new association's wiki is starting now and we welcomed international new members already.

Concerning the rules. We on de: think we should not draft a rule just to have it. We cleaned up and reduced our project namespace two years ago and we decided not to create new or more detailed rules. There are two reasons to think about more policies.

- An incident occurs (fortunately never happened on de: and it:)
- and endless dicussion or edit war accurs and we need a rule for future

Concerning welcoming: I dont like these automatic welcome messages that are common in other wikis. Real people should welcome new users. It's some more work but its worth.

Yesterday I talked with the city council of a town in Lower Saxony. We are going to start a project. The result will be a kind of template: a complete set of articles (town, region, thematic articles about events, cycling...). Till now we just worked on our articles without feedback from outside - in our small WV/WT world. This collaboration is a chance to work with official institutions (town government, german cycling association ...) that support the idea of free knowledge as well.


2013/1/13 <roger@rogerchrisman.com>
Regarding _criticizing restaurants_, the relevant Wikivoyage policy is
" "Avoid negative reviews"[1] which says:

       "Sometimes a restaurant, bar, hotel, or other attraction has
such grave defects that it's just not worth going to. If this is the
case, it's best to just leave it out of the destination guide for the
place it's in. There's no reason to clutter up a guide with lists of
places travellers shouldn't go.
        "The exception to this rule, however, is when travellers may
be led to the attraction by other information sources."

(See the policy for details.) This serves the overall Wikivoyage
guideline that "The traveler comes first."

If need arises we could modify the "Avoid negative reviews" policy,
but it has worked thus far.

The "See also" section of that policy links to the following four
other policies that inform the tone of the policy:

Tone
Be fair
The traveller comes first
Don't tout


[1] http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Avoid_negative_reviews

Roger

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