We welcomed new members already.
Paypal is available right now. I will send the paypal account's email
address via email. Due to an server problem I had to use one my own email
adress for the registration. I have to register a second (the official)
email address to the associations paypal account. But it works already and
I can send you the account's name via email. Later we are going to create a
separate site that manages the whole paypal process. But it takes a moment.
Till then people have to send it by hand using the paypal website.
We want to switch the settings of the wiki to make it multilingual -
including the interface.
2013/1/26 James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
Looks like at
http://www.wikivoyage-association.org/wiki/Becoming_a_member
By the way Fussi: it looks like the English join link is mixed up on
http://www.wikivoyage-association.org/wiki/Main_Page (still needs to be
translated but I imagine you know that... sorry I can't help with that :( )
.
On the german sight the little blue man with a puzzle piece is the 'become
a member ( Mitglied_werden ) link and the euro sign/red man is the
donate/spenden link. However on the English side the two are reversed (and
the puzzle == member makes more sense so I assume that way is right).
James
James Alexander
Manager, Merchandise
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
**
Hi Fussi,
How does one join?
Cheers,
Peter Southwood
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Stefan Fussan <derfussi(a)gmail.com>
*To:* Wikivoyage Mailing List <wikivoyage-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Sent:* Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:19 AM
*Subject:* Re: [Wikivoyage-l] Reflections
Sorry, it was such a busy time here. Here is the report from Germany:
Since the press release we got a huge amount of edits and new users. I
think some of them will stay ans edit frequently. Fortunately there is not
too much spam. We recieved quite a lot good content and there are no real
tendencies to write a second Wikipedia - justy inquiries for categories and
references. We created lots of categories. The other discussion is
currently down. How do the other communities think about that?
The reaction of the Germam press was huge. After the official press
release of WMDE me and Roland had interviews with newspapers (quite big
ones in Germany like Die Welt, Die Zeit and Süddeutsche) as well as an
interview with a radio station. The start was absolutely perfect.
When the busy start is over we should spend more time in interaction
between the language versions to drive things forward. One point was
mentioned above already. The policies. I am aware the English community has
mor and more detailed ones as we have. Meanwhile we are aware the we lack
in some details. Reviewing our policies and create mor global ones seems to
be very useful.
I have moved our association wiki, changed the database, updated to the
latest wiki version and redesigned it. There are some more things to do
(some translations) but the basic information are available. I am about to
extend it. Especially the "About us" section has to be reviewed and
translated. The application to become a Thematic Organisation is running.
Everybody is invited to join the association. It's important to become more
international to support all current and future language versions and start
new ideas and projects.
http://www.wikivoyage-association.org
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