http://guaka.org/tag/wikivoyage en http://guaka.org/guaka-wikitravel-wikivoyage-profit-nonprofit-http-ur1-caam6zs-wiki-traveling-138 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/wiki">wiki</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/wikitravel">wikitravel</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/wikivoyage">wikivoyage</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/profit">profit</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/nonprofit">nonprofit</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/traveling">traveling</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>guaka: #wikitravel #wikivoyage #profit #nonprofit <a href="http://ur1.ca/am6zs">http://ur1.ca/am6zs</a> #wiki #traveling</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:07:49 +0000 Guaka 3473 at http://guaka.org http://guaka.org/2007/09/03/wikivoyage <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/burningman">burning_man</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/couchsurfing">couchsurfing</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/creativecommons">creative_commons</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/culturalmisunderstanding">cultural_misunderstanding</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/disgruntled">disgruntled</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/europeans">europeans</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tag/germanversion">german_version</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tag/internetbrands">internet_brands</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8"><a href="/tag/parallels">parallels</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-9"><a href="/tag/sfbayarea">sf_bay_area</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-10"><a href="/tag/stumbleupon">stumble_upon</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-11"><a href="/tag/travel">travel</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-12"><a href="/tag/travelwiki">travel_wiki</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-13"><a href="/tag/wiki">wiki</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-14"><a href="/tag/wikitravel">wikitravel</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-15"><a href="/tag/wikivoyage">wikivoyage</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">I have been a contributor on Wikitravel for a long time now. I was not too worried when Wikitravel was bought by Internet Brands (which <a href="http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/08/30/501c3-can-casey-sell-out/" title="Can Casey sell out?" target="_blank">has already shown interest in buying CouchSurfing</a>). But I have been annoyed by the lack of database dumps at Wikitravel for a long time now. So I was very happy to stumble upon an alternative: <a href="http://wikivoyage.org" title="non-commercial travel wiki" target="_blank">Wikivoyage</a>. The project was set up by disgruntled admins of the German version of Wikitravel. I haven't gone into the gory details, but it could be more than  the lack of database dumps. My wild guess is that there was a cultural misunderstanding between Wikitravel, that was founded with an SF Bay Area Burning Man culture, and the Europeans dealing with policies created by them. It's funny to see some more parallels here with CouchSurfing but ortunately Wikitravel was already a lot more open (using Creative Commons and mostly open means of communication) than CS so forking was quite easy. Now let's see if <a href="http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Language_versions/Interest" title="interest in new languages for Wikivoyage" target="_blank">a little bit more pressure</a> will induce Internet Brands to <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Database_dump" title="Wikitravel database dumps?" target="_blank">make the dumps available</a>.</div></div></div> Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:55:11 +0000 Guaka 171 at http://guaka.org