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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l