It seems a wise decision not to mass-import all the media backlog, precisely to reduce future work for the community. Commons will probably allow a bot-import of non-orphan, partly vetted free images which will need some further review but are supposedly ok. Is this discussion happening somewhere? (It's more useful than discussing EDPs or ghost repositories, IMHO.)
Roland Unger, 03/11/2012 11:00:
With deep regret we have to state the we are not strong enough to prevent this and therefore we had no success. As you know our Wikivoyage admins and programmers were able to make a full transfer from Wikitravel to Wikivoyage. And they made a really good job. An now it's seems that a lot was for nothing.
Is there a tarball somewhere, to start with? I'd like to add them to archive.org. I was also unable to find the Wikitravel XML dumps, last time I checked.
Nemo