Hoi, <grin> you are providing a perfect reason why you might contribute to a WMF based travel wiki... No adds </grin> Thanks, Gerard
On 11 April 2012 17:16, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, >> I'd focus on making a better case for how it falls within Wikimedia's >> scope. >> >> MZMcBride >> >> >> The scope has been extensively discussed in this thread, and a > convincing answer has been given. This answer is that travel is an avenue > of education, possibly a more important one than an encyclopedia (since > visual impressions are the strongest), and everything which promotes > educational travel thus falls within the scope of the movement. > > There are however other issues which were also discussed. > > 1. The existence of two projects, Wikitravel and Wikivoyage, with unclear > position of both communities concerning the unification in general, and the > unification under the WMF umbrella in particular. > > 2. A good travel guide usually selects information. For instance, a list > of all resturants in Paris is useless. A list with comments or a star-rated > list is more useful, but the most useful is star-rated selection which > only contains a very limited number of entries. It is not clear whether > such selection is compatible with WMF principles, and if not, why do we > want to have a useless project (which potentially will be dominated by the > entries of the restaurants themselves). I note however that one of the > functions of an encyclopaedia is selection of encyclopaedic information, > and this is why we have these perennial battles about notability). > > 2a. A good travel guide caters to specific audience - e.g. backpackers, > retirees, or adventure travelers. If it attempts catering to all travellers > at the same time, it becomes useless. > > 3. My personal impression (of somebody who has an advanced knowledge of a > subject) is that Wikitravel is just a very poor travel guide. For standard > places like Paris it can not currently beat any of the major travel series. > For non-standard places, it contains nothing. May be this is fixable, I do > not know. However, the real reason I never contributed to Wikitravel are > ads. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l