Template:Wikivoyage: Difference between revisions

Early 2012, members of the Wikivoyage Association [[Meta-Wiki:Wikivoyage/Archive/2012-11-16|suggested a merge]] with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), with discussions taking place across various platforms (Google Groups, Wikitravel,[http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel:Travellers%27_pub&oldid=1916128#Moving_to_Wikimedia] Wikivoyage[http://web.archive.org/web/20121101112005/http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ] and [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]).  The driving force was to go back to basics of collaborative wiki writing, on a non-profit educational basis, free of advertising; and to gain the extensive and long-established technical support, development and backup provided by the WMF.  The goal would be to import all existing Wikivoyage language wikis, users, [[Sysop|admins]] and page content onto WMF servers; and also import and merge in any useful content from Wikitravel too (which is allowed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license as used by Wikitravel, but which Wikitravel was trying to prevent, and also initiated legal action to prevent).  Discussions progressed, and during October 2012, [[wv-en:Wikivoyage:Migration to Wikimedia|Wikivoyage migrated]] the content of Wikitravel and Wikivoyage, along with all [[wv-en:Wikivoyage:User account migration|contributors]], to the Wikimedia Foundation.  On 10 November 2012, the Wikivoyage project went live (as beta) on Wikimedia servers and its content pages display the Wikimedia Foundation logo.  On 15 January 2013, the WMF announced that all existing language versions of Wikivoyage had been formally launched onto Wikimedia servers and incorporated into the WMF.  However, project is still in a [[wv-en:Wikivoyage:Cleanup|transition]] status, as most [[wv-en:Wikivoyage:Cleanup#Photo hunt!|images]] still have to be moved from the former Wikivoyage shared repositories to [[Wikimedia Commons]], and many links have to be fixed by the community.  Text for all Wikivoyage wikis is made available under an open content free [[:Category:Wiki License|license]]: the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license]] (CC-BY-SA 3.0).