As Erik mentions, there is a straw poll regarding naming at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll.
It is initially framed as whether the project shall be called WikiVoyage. This is just for simplicity's sake: the domain names are already secured (obviously, by the extant site), owned and have a history. If the community prefers not to use that name, the Foundation is perfectly happy to run an alternative naming process. Please weigh in at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll. Your voice is needed. pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a > Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support. > > We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve > expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of > this launch. We’re coordinating certain practical issues, such as > content migration, account reconciliation, and attribution, with them > directly. Please note that the new project will be subject to > Wikimedia’s terms of use, privacy policy, and licensing policy. Like > with any of our projects, the bulk of content-related policies and > practices will be designed and managed by the community. > > Launch discussions are continuing here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide > > An additional open question is the project name. Wikivoyage has > offered to contribute its name. So, we could stick with Wikivoyage, > which is already established, and has a non-profit organization > supporting it. We have also obtained a number of alternative domain > names, as have individual community members. We’ll initially straw > poll the "Wikivoyage yes/no" question as this seems like the simplest > path forward if there’s wide agreement in favor; more on that in a > separate note by Philippe. > > For the Wikivoyage content import and project launch, our current plan > is to do an in-person sprint in San Francisco in late October to > support the project launch (we may defer this based on everyone’s > availability). There’s also plenty of work ahead of time. If you’d > like to be part of the technical launch team, please sign up here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Technical_coordination > > We’ll also continue to monitor comments on > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide and will engage > there as the process continues. > > For the time being, I am coordinating the overall project launch, > supported by Philippe. Questions/comments welcome. > > I look forward to getting this project off the ground. :-) As we’ve > said before, we don’t view ourselves in competition with other > providers of free knowledge, nor do we encourage anybody to leave any > other site. The beautiful thing about free culture is that anyone who > wishes to contribute to the corpus of freely available information > about travel (or indeed any subject) can do so anywhere, and both > information and people can flow freely between projects. > > All best, > Erik > > [1] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-September/121897.html > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
