Posts tagged "wiki"
17 Feb 2013

  • Wikivoyage gets boost as Internet Brands backs down over legal challenge

    Digital

    Today we are pleased to announce a settlement in the legal proceedings between the Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Brands relating to issues stemming from the creation of Wikivoyage, our community’s newest free knowledge project. We regard this settlement as a victory for the Wikimedia movement, and a vindication of our values and beliefs. Our community expressed a strong [...]

15 Jan 2013

  • Interview: Wikipedia’s travel site Wikivoyage launches today amidst big hopes

    Digital

    Six months after some Wikitravel administrators broke ranks with the site’s parent company Internet Brands and began planning an advertising-free travel guide, Wikivoyage officially launched today. The official debut of the Creative Commons license-driven travel guide comes on sister company Wikipedia’s 12th birthday. But, SEO-hog Wikipedia will be giving its young sibling plenty of gifts for [...]

14 Jan 2013

  • Opinion: 6 reasons why Wikivoyage is already better than Wikitravel

    Digital

    Tomorrow, January 15th, marks the official launch date of Wikivoyage, the new free travel guide from the Wikimedia Foundation. Born from a split with Wikitravel, here are six reasons it’s already better than its ancestor. Wikivoyage has a great mobile version. This uses the same systems as the massively popular mobile version of Wikipedia, and [...]

09 Jan 2013

  • Wikipedia’s travel site’s official launch coming soon; what to expect and not expect

    Digital

    » Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook. [UPDATE: The Wikimedia Foundation is tentatively slated to launch Wikivoyage next week, on January 15, Skift has learned.] Wikipedia’s next big push is a travel wiki, and the official launch of Wikivoyage is coming soon, according to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales was on Colbert Show [...]

23 Sep 2012

  • Wikipedia-style travel guide goes live in rebuff to Internet Brands

    Digital

    In a rebuff to Internet Brands and its commercial Wikitravel, the Wikimedia community launched a not-for-profit English-language Wikivoyage, making good on a controversial plan endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation last month. The new Wikivoyage, with its 26,500 destination guides written by volunteer contributors Wikipedia-style under a Creative Commons license, is being hosted by Wikivoyage in [...]

20 Sep 2012

  • Internet Brands proposed partnership with Wikimedia Foundation before lawsuit

    Digital

    Two weeks before suing two Wikitravel volunteers in late August, alleging theft of intellectual property and unfair competition in a civil conspiracy with the Wikimedia Foundation to create a new travel wiki website, Internet Brands proposed a partnership with the foundation. Behind-the-scenes plot twists are coming to light in the midst of dueling lawsuits by [...]

06 Sep 2012
13 Jul 2012

  • Wikipedia parent to launch travel guide with Wikitravel rebels

    Destinations

    Source: Skift Author: Dennis Schaal Oh, the possible SEO juice. The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to create a travel guide in the mold of its non-profit, user-written and search engine results-hogging Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia often dominates the upper tiers of Google search results pages, and the launch of a still-unnamed Wikimedia travel guide could [...]

  • Gibraltar becomes first Wikipedia city; QR codes to be plastered all over for tourists

    Destinations

    Gibraltar plans to be the World’s first Wikipedia City, which in layman-speak means it will have Wikipedia pages for all its tourist/visitor areas, and will plaster these physical destinations with QR codes. That will allow visitors to use their smart phones anywhere in the territory and read all about Gibraltar’s cultural heritage in their own [...]