@ 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.
James Heilman
Wikivoyage admins showed that it is possible to establish new wikis in a short time under worse condition than WMF now.
Maybe it is a dream to think about a lot of people doing the task of the WMF. At the WMF all projects started with their own comminities without help of others.
If Wikivoyage would be the first travel site around the globe a beta would be possible. But we have a complete wikivoyage-old and wikitravel and others running. The beta version could not be attractive to new authers.
And we have a big outcry at the German community. Please think about the communities. Only strong communities are the key to success.
Yours Roland