[Wikimedia-l] Travel Project - Next Steps

[Philippe Beaudette]

As Erik mentions, there is a straw poll regarding naming at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll.

It is initially framed as whether the project shall be called
WikiVoyage.  This is just for simplicity's sake: the domain names are
already secured (obviously, by the extant site), owned and have a
history.  If the community prefers not to use that name, the
Foundation is perfectly happy to run an alternative naming process.

Please weigh in at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll.  Your
voice is needed.

pb
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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philippe at wikimedia.org


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a
> Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support.
>
> We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve
> expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of
> this launch. We’re coordinating certain practical issues, such as
> content migration, account reconciliation, and attribution, with them
> directly. Please note that the new project will be subject to
> Wikimedia’s terms of use, privacy policy, and licensing policy. Like
> with any of our projects, the bulk of content-related policies and
> practices will be designed and managed by the community.
>
> Launch discussions are continuing here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide
>
> An additional open question is the project name. Wikivoyage has
> offered to contribute its name.  So, we could stick with Wikivoyage,
> which is already established, and has a non-profit organization
> supporting it. We have also obtained a number of alternative domain
> names, as have individual community members. We’ll initially straw
> poll the "Wikivoyage yes/no" question as this seems like the simplest
> path forward if there’s wide agreement in favor; more on that in a
> separate note by Philippe.
>
> For the Wikivoyage content import and project launch, our current plan
> is to do an in-person sprint in San Francisco in late October to
> support the project launch (we may defer this based on everyone’s
> availability). There’s also plenty of work ahead of time. If you’d
> like to be part of the technical launch team, please sign up here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Technical_coordination
>
> We’ll also continue to monitor comments on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide and will engage
> there as the process continues.
>
> For the time being, I am coordinating the overall project launch,
> supported by Philippe. Questions/comments welcome.
>
> I look forward to getting this project off the ground. :-) As we’ve
> said before, we don’t view ourselves in competition with other
> providers of free knowledge, nor do we encourage anybody to leave any
> other site. The beautiful thing about free culture is that anyone who
> wishes to contribute to the corpus of freely available information
> about travel (or indeed any subject) can do so anywhere, and both
> information and people can flow freely between projects.
>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-September/121897.html
>
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> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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