I'm speaking from the point of view of the English Wikitravel communities' policies, which is probably good place to start the conversation, since that's the biggest part of the project…. while we are adopting the name Wikivoyage, the community of WV is just the German and Italian branch. The Italian branch later joined the Germans at WV, who I'm sure wrote some of the Italian policies to comply with German law etc. I have no doubt that there will be some finessing to do with some of the other language versions, but the English policies are pretty solid, and should be changed by consensus, rather than built anew, with a few exceptions you mentioned, like those that conflict with WMF policies

Cacahuate


On Oct 23, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Snowolf <ml@snowolf.eu> wrote:

Also, I'm not sure all "policies" actually had community approval or discussion from the local project itself. I see several ones just copied over from the german one by and individual admin and translated/half-translated/left in their original german.

Snowolf

On 23/10/2012 23:59, Snowolf wrote:
Sure, but you'll have to combine WT's and WV's policies, and fit them within the global wikimedia-wide policies (of which there are few, mainly to deal with userrights and crosswiki issues).

I'm thinking more of the smaller projects rather than the main ones.

For example the Italian wikivoyage has several of the policy pages written in German, which clearly should be translated/modified when moved over, as one can hardly have a policy in a language different from the one the wiki is written in.

Snowolf
_______________________________________________
Wikivoyage-l mailing list
Wikivoyage-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivoyage-l