[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The Portuguese Wikivoyage has been created. :)
Thanks,
     GerardM


On 12 November 2012 22:31, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton <
rodrigo.argenton at gmail.com> wrote:

> So you're telling me there's files, but you will not import because no one
> of the Portuguese speakers helped in the cleaning process? Then I'll
> have to start
> from scratch (something that already exists), denying the existence of a
> community and the previous project and I still have to go through
> various bureaucratic
> processes, so that maybe one day the project (that already exists) come
> into
> existence?
>
> More than that, we have to manually import the WikiTravel, and as we
> have no import
> tool, we will not be able to bring together the history, so authorship is
> not properly credited, breaking the license, something which we can not do.
> Soon, we will have to find a way to give credit to those who wrote, or even
> write from scratch... so pretty...
>
> I really wanted to understand the reason for not bringing all the languages
> of Wikitravel ... everything was under a free license, it would give a
> lot more work? More work than the work to make 2000 new articles in pt?
>
> Tomorrow I restart the project, and maybe in 6 years it will come to have
> the 2000 articles again. For today I have to cancel activities for the next
> semester that could increase project visibility, after all it does not
> exist
> .
>
>
> I know that Wikipedia is The priority, but for the love of god!
>
>
> On 12 November 2012 15:33, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2012/11/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Roland Unger, 12/11/2012 07:46:
> > >
> > >  Hi folks,
> > >>
> > >> the Wikivoyage e.V. got the xml files of more language versions, I
> > >> think also for es, fi, hu, ja, pl, pt, ro and zh from user Wrh2.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Where are they? Again, please publish them.
> > >
> > >>
> > I can only underline this. It would be quite necessary to know how many
> > pages existed there and how active the project actually was (There is no
> > reason for the language committee to make an exception for all these
> > languages IN BULK if some have actually no current interest from users).
> > The XML dumps can of course be imported to Incubator in the case that an
> > own subdomain is not immediately created.
> > Note that some pages for a wikivoyage in Spanish have already been
> started
> > on Incubator, as well as this request/discussion:
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikivoyage_Spanish
> >
> > Besides, can these old wikis from which the xml files were taken still be
> > accessed? At least it is not http://pt.wikivoyage-old.org/ .
> >
> >
> >
> > >> But there were no users who helped us to check to contents.
> > >>
> > >
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikivoyage/New_language_**versions<
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/New_language_versions>is now
> > on Meta, by the way.
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/New_wikis_importers<
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_wikis_importers>/might/ want to help
> > doing the XML import, depending on how much
> > > pre-emptive cleanup is actually needed; you can try asking them.
> > >
> >
> >  Indeed ;-)
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