Is anybody interested in running interwiki bots in Wikivoyage projects?
On Russian Wikivoyage, we have adopted the standard bot policy (and
became the first Wikivoyage project to do so), but we do not have
anybody in the project who has an interwiki bot.
Today, I had to fix manually interwiki links in a number of articles on
Russian, English, German, and Dutch versions, and found them pretty much
in the state of disorder.
Cheers
Yaroslav
Hey All
We are looking at Jan 15, 2013 as an official launch date for Wikivoyage.
We are looking at options for both on wiki and off wiki media outreach.
There is still work to be done with respect to moving images over from the
old site but hopefully things will be good enough. We are a wiki of course
which means all are invited to fix any issues they see.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hi folks,
since several hours Wikivoyage sites or at least the databases
are not working properly (at least the German, Italian, and
English branches). The wikis are very slow.
What happens?
Roland
Hi folks,
thanks to the WMF mobile team, http://en.m.wikivoyage.org/ and other
language versions should work now. The automatic redirect (causing
your phone to go the mobile site when you go to en.wikivoyage.org)
isn't set up yet, but is in progress.
Note that MaxSem (one of our mobile team members) set up the mobile
Main Page for English, but the community should improve further on
this initial configuration, and the same needs to be done in other
languages.
It's really easy to configure a Main Page in your language.
Essentially, it's a matter of adding a selector ID in the right places
of the wikitext of the Main Page. See:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#How_do_I_for…
(This is necessary because Main Pages typically are formatted for
large screen sizes and can't easily be converted into a mobile view.)
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hi all,
I'm curious what folks here think about making some noise about the
two most recent additions to the Wikimedia family around January or
February. Wikivoyage is still finishing up the beta phase (image
transfers, logo import etc.) this month, and Wikidata isn't live as a
repository yet -- but we could set a target date that would work for
both projects.
What I'm imagining is an actual banner on Wikimedia projects
announcing the launch of both Wikivoyage and Wikidata, pointing to a
landing page explaining what these projects are, how to participate,
etc. That page could be drafted on Meta. Then interested folks would
visit the projects to learn more and get involved.
Wikimedia projects obviously have an enormous reach and I think this
could help create awareness and build community -- but it could also
be an unwelcome influx in the early stages. This could be regulated by
running a banner only for logged in users, or x% of readers.
Thoughts?
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Internet Brands, or at least IBobi, has decided to start trolling
Wikivoyage, bringing trumped-up charges against a community member, then
engaging in IBobi's usual modus operandi: claiming we're not following our
own policies, crying persecution, and the same stuff he pulled on Meta-Wiki
and en.wikipedia.
An IP address registered to Internet Brands has continued the abuse after
IBobi was blocked.
It seems like this might be relevant in WMF's current legal case against IB.
Powers &8^]