Wikivoyage/Lounge

This is the Wikivoyage Lounge on the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Here we discuss the Wikivoyage project across all its language versions. For old discussions, see the archive.

Monthly reports from each edition of Wikivoyage can be found on the Summit page.

這裡是維基導遊多語言休息室。我們在這裡能使用不同語言討論在維基導遊計畫中遇到的一些問題。 每個月將會記錄在峰會上。

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Wikivoyage Mobile App

I wrote this same article to Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) and Wikimedia forum page but I share my ideas one more time to here. Wikivoyage is one of the best projects of Wikimedia. In last days, I'm so concentrated to develop the new opened Turkish Wikivoyage page. And I think, an official mobile app for Wikivoyage is a good idea. It can be perfect for the travelers around the world. The people mostly use their smart phones during traveling. This project will not make much sense if there is no app of WV.UcuncuUlus (talk) 13:44, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

voyagers usually use their smart phones during traveling. certainly, we need a mobile app for wikivoyage. --Zemxer (talk) 11:40, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

In the past, I was in the "but people can get to Wikivoyage through their smartphone's browser", but I now see the value if having a Wikivoyage branded app. Nelson Ricardo (talk) 22:32, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

not sure what your requirements on the app are, but there's already kiwix, and also apps like maps.me and OsmAnd allow browsing WV... Andree.sk (talk) 04:54, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

@UcuncuUlus: Which features or functions are you missing in the current browser versions of Wikivoyage that would necessitate an app (i.e. that can't be implemented in a browser)? ArticCynda (talk) 10:56, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Call for Election Volunteers

Hi everyone,

Would you like to get the right people elected to the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees?

Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. You can read more about this role here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-04-29/Call_for_Board_Elections_Volunteers

Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

• Promote the election in their communities’ channels
• Organize discussions about the election in their communities
• Translate messages for their communities

Do you want to be an Election Volunteer for Wikivoyage or any of the Wiki projects, and connect your community with this movement effort? Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table or get in contact with a facilitator. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer for Wiki Projects in the top 30 for eligible voters. Even better if there are two or more sharing the work.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this role please reach out to me or any of the board governance facilitators.

Best,Zuz (WMF) (talk) 11:59, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #1 (2021-06)

WikiSP Newsletter of June 2021

Members

RichdVarela • Balou46 • MONUMENTA

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• To fulfill with the standards of the Affiliations Committee was modified the name of the group to Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish. Was created a communiqué reflecting the change and the fact that the support to other linguistic communities will not be modified.

Tech news

• We have a mailing list, you can suscribe here.

Ongoing discussions

• Was proposed a change for the Linguistic Commission because of the peak in members. You can comment in Taberna (if you are Spanish speaker), Pub (if you are English speaker) or Lounge (if you are German speaker).

Miscellaneous

• On April 22 was approved SmallProjects, a research project that will allow us to fully understand the fate of small projects and the reasons why affiliates do not take them into account. It is the pilot of an ambitious project that will focus all projects in any language.
• We have reached twenty members! We hope to keep moving forward to reach the goal.

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Call for Election Candidates

Dear All,

The 2021 Board of Trustees election is coming soon. Candidates from the community are needed to fill the available seats.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community trustees and appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community trustees.

Wikimedia contributors will vote to fill four seats on the Board in 2021. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.

Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the apply to be a candidate page.

Best, Zuz (WMF) (talk) 09:25, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #2 (2021-06)

WikiSP Newsletter of July 2021.

Members

Gauri • Kwangya

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• Following the recommendations of the Council, the Linguistic Commission has been dissolved. It has been replaced by the Central Commission of Languages and the Project Hubs

Tech news

• We have performed maintenance on the Delta server.
• The bouncer is a service that allows a 24/7 connection to IRC so you don't miss anything. Following the migration of freenode to libera.chat, this group now offers this service. You can read about it here.

Miscellaneous

• In order for the project hubs to function properly, we require that members of the community of each project that this project focuses on be able to join the hubs. Specifically, we are looking for members of the communities of: enwikivoyage, dewikivoyage and all projects in Spanish.
• Remember you can subscribe to mailing list and find out about the latest news from the group (it will be added as a button at the bottom of this newsletter), you can also connect with us on #wikimedia-sp or subscribe to the Telegram version of this newsletter.

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16:10, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

FoP related issues on commons

See voy:en:Wikivoyage:Travellers' pub#Time to revive WV-shared? for a little bit of context

But those of you on en and ja wikivoyage would've noticed that pagebanners were proposed to be speedily deleted, until Ikan Kekek stopped it from being speedily deleted.

Back when Wikitravel existed, there was WT-shared (I wasn't here during the times of Wikitravel) there was their own repository of images. And with commons becoming increasingly unreliable to host our images with most of them being tagged for deletion due to FoP issues far too quickly, and way too much even at the English Wikivoyage to handle, where there's about 50 active regular users calling it their home wiki or just a really significant contributor. If en.voy can't handle it, I can't imagine more of the smaller language Wikivoyages, like the French Wikivoyage.

So Ikan Kekek suggested to have something like that which is only used on Wikivoyage. Such include e.g. pagebanners, preventing commons from speedily deleting them when they don't have a clue about how an article with a missing pagebanner would look like (see voy:en:User:SHB2000/Junee for that).

I'm all up for support for that, and would other language Wikivoyage's support us here? I understand that tr.voy is quite new, and wasn't there at WT, but for some older Wikivoyage's like it or de support the revival?

Cheers, --SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 09:26, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

This is a consequence of linking banners directly, User:SHB2000, and can be avoided by linking banners through Wikidata. If you declare the banner as in your example, {{pagebanner|Paghtjsue m.jpg}}, then removing the target file breaks the template because it does not have anything to fall back to, as you already pointed out.

A more reliable way to do this is to link the banner through Wikidata, by linking it to a page banner field. In this method, declare a default ("black") banner in the article like this {{pagebanner|Pagebanner default.jpg}}. If a page banner field exists on Wikidata, it will be inserted automatically (with the added advantage that it inserts new banners to any other wikis supporting page banners, too). Should the banner file be removed from Commons, the link is broken and Wikivoyage falls back to its default "black" banner without breaking the article layout. Here is an example of a Wikidata linked page banner for Gunib (a town in Dagestan) on Wikivoyage: d:Q1025918.

I haven't had the chance to test this yet, but Wikidata allows multiple page banner entries. I'm not sure which banner is actually displayed when multiple banner files are linked, but this could be an interesting solution to banners being deleted: if one banner file is no longer available, the other is substituted automatically. ArticCynda (talk) 11:17, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

That's not the issue here. The main issue is files are just being instantly deleted due to FoP issues, on all language Wikivoyage's particularly en and ja. Our proposal is to create a brand new site unlike commons, is just for Wikivoyage photos that all language Wikivoyage's can access. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 13:18, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I understand that's a problem, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but was Commons not explicitly designed to be a repo for media used on other wikis? Rather than starting a Commons2, it would make more sense to fix the issue with Commons because what reason of existence does it still have if it no longer suits its purpose? What I suggested above is a temporary workaround/contingency until problems with Commons are fixed. ArticCynda (talk) 14:01, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: I think you're going to step on a lot of people's toes if you attempt to found an alternative media repository. I don't see that happen under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella any time soon. ArticCynda (talk) 14:04, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I do agree here. But have a look at c:COM:ANU with numerous problems with A1Cafel there, to the point where someone us no longer feel contributing at commons. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 14:09, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for linking to that thread, quite annoying situation indeed. I understand it's a problem, but as long as Commons policies are not updated to reflect the needs of sister sites (for example, by allowing "fair use" media under specific conditions), it's only a matter of time before another A1Cafel shows up and starts nominating or deleting media in use on sister sites. I have the impression many Commons contributors still AGF or even support A1Cafel's actions, so clearly there is a divide. And so some of the en-voy folks are trying their usual strategy of "vandalism" accusations to get A1Cafel banned. I doubt that's going to work on Commons, and even if it does, it doesn't solve the underlying problem.

As a regular Commons contributor myself (and someone who has added numerous page banners, too) I'd much rather see Commons policies updated/fixed rather than splintering Commons into a "purist" version and a "fair use" version. It's a collaborative project, we must find a middle ground that works for everyone. ArticCynda (talk) 21:55, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

True. But except even some from Commons are against A1Cafel here. (also off topic but I took your Chernobyl image off commons for the new Stay safe expedition) SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 22:15, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I have yet to see any Wikivoyager suggest that A1Cafel should be banned, rather than made no longer an autopatroller on Commons and for them to stop abusing speedy deletion nominations or nominating free files from organizations like the National Weather Service for deletion (speedy deletion, yet!). Anyway, the updated proposal seems to be to use a bot to locally upload lots of photos in use at en.voy that we can assume will eventually be nominated for deletion from Commons because of freedom of panorama issues. If we do that, we want to make them available to other Wikivoyages. When we upload a file locally, is it automatically available on Wikidata, or do we have to do something for it to be available there? Or is there a way we can do this all in house, lest we risk someone deleting the files on Wikidata? Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:29, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

No, if we locally upload a file, it won't be available on Wikidata. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 10:53, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Correct, you can only link Commons files via Wikidata. I've already tried linking files that are locally uploaded to Wikipedia under their fair use provisions, and Wikidata can't find them. So likewise, files in a local media repository for Wikivoyage can't be linked as illustrations or page banners on Wikidata. Practically this means that a page banner that's local to the English Wikivoyage will not only no longer be automatically linked to other languages, but entirely unavailable to them unless they physically copy the file to their own private repositories. Which effectively splits the source tree and leads to many identical copies of the same image/banner on every Wikivoyage edition.

When I make a new banner for a Wikivoyage article that doesn't have a banner yet, I only need to link it to Wikidata once to "apply" it to any Wikivoyage language edition (unless specific Wikivoyage languages choose to override the Wikidata default banner with a specific file). Personally I find this a very elegant way of doing it, because it means I don't have to edit the Wikivoyage articles of every language individually. It saves time, less prone to errors, etc. ArticCynda (talk) 12:28, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: I saw the Stay Safe expedition yes, but haven't had the time yet to read into it. May indeed affect Chernobyl and other similar topics. Ping me on my talk page if you need input on Chernobyl, some parts may need to be redacted. Can offer advice if desired. Quite a few of my Commons images on Chernobyl are currently linked to the Chernobyl Wikivoyage article so need to check that removing them from Commons doesn't break that article on en-voy or other languages. ArticCynda (talk) 12:39, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000, Ikan Kekek, ArticCynda: Hello, in name of WikiSP, I'd like to put this topic on discussion at the group level and get support. I answered on enwikivoyage at the moment. Regards, --Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 17:58, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for taking this issue further, Galahad, that is much appreciated! ArticCynda (talk) 11:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Several Wikivoyagers have been working with conscientious admins at Commons to improve their procedures and guidelines, and the worst offender has been blocked from nominating files for deletion or discussing deletion nominations. Notifications of nominations for deletion have slowed down. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:34, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

That doesn't mean that some kind of Wikivoyage-shared site or setup couldn't be helpful, but the discussion at en.voy stated that we'd have to get approval from Wikimedia and that that approval wouldn't be granted. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:36, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #3 (2021-08)

WikiSP Newsletter of August 2021.

Members

Jsmura • Villalaso • Manlleus • Laura Fiorucci

Ongoing discussions

• A discussion on changes to the membership policy is underway,
• A discussion on increasing temporary seats on the Administrative Commission is underway.

Miscellaneous

• We have reached 25 members!
• Members to the Regional Committees were recently selected. Congratulations to Alexandrabello for joining the LATAM and The Caribbean Committee.
• SmallProjects starts on August 16. A synthesized version of how the project will work can be found here.

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20:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Travel topic skeleton (en)

What's up with that disclaimer at the top, "X is a travel topic"?

Any attempt to use that line gets deleted by administrators and there's no sign that that line exists in other existing travel topics, but any attempt to update the documentation to reflect that this is no longer part of the travel topic skeleton also gets reverted on sight - by another administrator. Why?

I recommend starting a discussion at voy:Wikivoyage talk:Quick travel topic article template with a {{ping}} to the admin(s) in question. I doubt that anybody monitors this page on Meta. --Nelson Ricardo 2500 (talk) 21:15, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nelson Ricardo 2500: I monitor this page every so couple of days, but not everyday.

To the Host IP, you do realise that you can't just unilaterally change the format, right? Have you looked at the other formats before? u|Ikan Kekek reverted that edit, because literally, what they said in the edit summary. No, all other travel topic has that inappropriate hat note, and yes, as I repeat you can't unilaterally make changes on formats that have been since the days of Wikitravel. What more, it could have been justified if you had been at least known to the community, or at least sparked up a discussion. But did you do that, and that is no. You need to stop throwing aspersions when you were literally told what you did wasn't the right thing. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 06:06, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000, We might want to update voy:Wikivoyage:Quick travel topic article template accordingly. Nelson Ricardo 2500 (talk) 19:30, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this is a user who is deliberately locking his talk page so that no one may contact him on-wiki. And yes, if the documentation doesn't match actual usage, it does need to be corrected.

Yeah, did you read the header of my talk page? And yes, that user is me. Follow the instructions there and you should end up going to voy:en:User talk:SHB2000/strip/IP talk page. It's protected from harassment and threats by a WMF banned user. Also, please sign your posts with 4 tildes (~~~~) SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 00:27, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

You're trying to send me to an unmonitored user talk subpage. That's a little like setting out a dustbin with "suggestion box" marked on the side. I see that the original error (multiple pieces of documentation are telling users to create topics with " Travel topic is a travel topic. " when neither the text of existing WV topics nor the opinions of whatever admins spoke up support the inclusion of this line) remains. I'm not going from forum to forum to explain and re-explain the issue - you're aware of the matter, either fix it or don't fix it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.237.50.3 (talk) 23:59, 7 September 2021

So you mean "leave my talk open to anons and get threats?". Yeah, reconsider that because I watch both pages. And yes, I'm aware of the matter, but you are not correct here.

I'm not going to have a go at you here, but change your attitude. You're thinking you know everything but based on your ongoing comments, it seems you don't. And you seem to think you're not at fault here.

And to the original thread, no. The lede is supposed to be changed as soon as you create it. Common sense would prevail that you replace that right after when you insert that. Now perhaps look at the itinerary and event skeletons. They have the same thing as travel topics.

Also, sign your messages. I've told you this before. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 08:55, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Um, excuse me? "No, all other travel topic has that inappropriate hat note, and yes, as I repeat you can't unilaterally make changes on formats that have been since the days of Wikitravel." makes no sense. If the existing usage is that the hat note shouldn't be there, whomever was reverting the documentation to stick the hatnote back in was the one making the unilateral change. voy:Wikivoyage:Quick travel topic article template and other pages like it are documentation. If following this documentation puts the user in the cross-hairs of admins because the documentation is wrong, fix the documentation so that it matches whatever current status-quo usage WV admins will actually permit.

WikiSP Newsletter #04 (2021-10)

WikiSP Newsletter of October 2021.

Members

Sargento de Hierro • SHB2000 • Ybsen lucero • JOAN

New election board members

Hasley • Hispano76

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• The electoral policy was approved; this allows the members of the group to decide the members of the different components or to choose the General Coordinator.

Ongoing discussions

• A vote to approve the Code of Conduct is in progress.
• The Administrative Commission is the most important component of the group as the substantive decisions emanate from there. Elections for the Administrative Commission have begun. The election commissioners will send a message to all those eligible to register as candidates and/or electors.

Miscellaneous

• After two years, we have finally been recognized! An announcement has been made, which is also summarized in this Spanish Wikinews article.
• Episodes one and two of SuenaWiki Reloaded, a space that allows to talk about the projects of the Wikimedia movement and free knowledge globally, can be listened to through Wikimedia Commons.

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02:14, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

"Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo" (and Bing)

Article here: [1]. Discussion here: [2]. I think this applies to every language version, not just English. Does anyone know anything more about this? 70.175.192.217 02:30, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

经多次尝试，我发现无法在bing上复现，我需要贴一张图吗？ SD hehua (talk) 09:55, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #05 (2021-11)

WikiSP Newsletter of November 2021.

Members

-sasha-

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• Six days left to sanction the Code of Conduct. If you are an active member, you can go and exercise your vote.

Tech news

• We have implemented three new instances: Limesurvey, Moodle and MediaWiki. The first will be for conducting surveys to be sent to volunteers, the second for a future educational program and the third for testing on MediaWiki.
• As you know, this group offers permanent connection to Libera.Chat through its bouncer service. Now the requests are processed via Phabricator to make it easier for volunteers to access this service.

Miscellaneous

• On October 29, we requested a general support fund so that our mission can continue uninterrupted. We hope that the Latin America and Caribbean Committee will look favorably on our proposal to support small projects.
• We need your feedback: Help us to focus our efforts to support small projects in the coming year. We want you to tell us what we can support and in what ways we should support them. The survey will run for thirty days, until December 03. The survey link is here.
• The results of the Admincom's temporary seats will be announced on November 8.
• From November 09 to 10 we will have a edit-a-thon at Wikiviajes. There we will edit as many destinations as possible.
• On November 16th we will have the Allie Awards; a virtual award in which we recognize the excellence, initiative and activism of volunteers in the Wikimedia movement. You as a volunteer can nominate who you consider deserving of such an award. You only have to ping Galahad with the name and the reason why he/she deserves to be recognized. You have the opportunity to nominate until November 8.
• On November 17th we will be supporting the friends of WikiAcción Perú and the Cámara de Comercio de San Martín in the Wikiviajes workshop on the region of San Martín. If you want to participate, you can write us through hello<at>wikisp.org.

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00:48, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

wiki/Wy/hbs

Just to inform all Wikivoyage HBS (bosansko-hrvatsko-crnogorsko-srpski) is proposed https://w.wiki/4h3Z --Zblace (talk) 11:13, 16 January 2022 (UTC)