[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

Oona Castro ocastro at wikimedia.org
Thu Jan 3 22:41:30 UTC 2013


Awesome, Gerard!

Muito obrigada!

Happy new year and great guides to Portuguese speaking countries ;-)

Oona



On 3 January 2013 18:28, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
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> > Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
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