[Foundation-l] Wiki Travel Guide

[Ziko van Dijk]

Dear James,

In general the idea sounds interesting, and Wikitravel is certainly
one of the notable wiki community projects. But I am not sure whether
Wikitravel (or the content it provides) fit into the scope of
Wikimedia. Is it really 'educational' content?

Kind regards
Ziko


2012/4/9 James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com>:
> The core group of editors at Wikitravel are interested in joining a WMF run
> "Wiki Travel Guide". A proposal for creating such a project has been
> outlined here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide and would
> develop from the content currently at wikitravel.org
>
> *Wikitravel is currently in 20 languages and in English contains more than
> 25,000 articles. The content is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.  Site
> readership statistics are not released by Internet Brands, but for travel
> information the site is consistently highly ranked.  It is the largest and
> most popular freely-licensed, user-contributed travel guide collection.
> Alexa.com ranks it as the 2637 most popular site on the web with a global
> reach of 0.0602%. The interwiki links between Wikipedia and Wikitravel
> highlight the close historic cooperation between the editors of both sites,
> where users adding travelogue style content to Wikipedia have often been
> directed to add the content to Wikitravel.
>
> Benefits for the WMF:
> 1) Increase the scope of content offered by the WMF
> 2) Increase the number of Wikimedians
> 3) Increase the volume of content for fundraising
> 4) Provide a separate repository for important travel and tourism
> information, some of which currently is contained within Wikipedia articles.
>
> Benefits for travel content:
> 1) Reputation of the WMF would increase the editor base.
> 2) Remove the conflicts between the commercial decisions of the current
> hosting provider and the community.
> 3) Would increase the reliability of the site, which is currently running
> old MediaWiki versions, on poorly performing infrastructure.
>
> Benefits for both:
> 1) Would make it easier for the two sites to direct editors to the better
> site for the content in question, leading to better focus within articles.
> 2) Combining the image repositories at Wikimedia Commons would result in
> greater and easier image availability for both Wikipedia and the travel
> site, and an increase in both contributors and images.*
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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