Talk:Wikitravel

Spam?  Sam   Tally-ho!  04:28, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Pashley appears to be human, and has been active for long enough that it seems dubious that they would have come here just to advertise. Just an offmission article-- "Shut up, Brx." 04:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Is it off-mission? I would think developments related to avertising and exploitation in wikis were on-topic. Granted, the question of marketing-driven subversion of a site is complex and less obviously relevant here than lunacy-driven subversion, I'd still argue it is significant. Pashley (talk) 04:33, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Doesn't seem to be on mission to me. There have been several commercial take-overs of wikis before today and this doesn't seem any different. rpeh •T•C•E• 08:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. That kind of thing happens every other day. There's nothing to see here. Delete.--Spud (talk) 04:48, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The phenomenon itself is worth a mention at Wiki, though. Sophie  Wilder  09:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Did said mention ever occur? Avengerofthe BoN (talk) 00:49, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes it did. I am actually quite nostalgic for the old days of Wikitravel. It was relevant at the time, but even if it had not been undermined by IB, it would no longer be so.  --TheroadtoWiganPier (talk) 01:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * How so? And what do you think of the Wikivoyage fork that apparently occurred? Avengerofthe BoN (talk) 01:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * A key reason for being of Wikitravel was to provide a user generated travel guide that could be printed. Indeed there was a publishing division that did exactly that - the better guides at Wikitravel (and they were REALLY good) were published for sale as print on demand books available via Amazon. The world moved on, technology moved on and the need for printed travel guides almost disappeared. The Wikivoyage en fork is today what Wikitravel would have become... i.e. largely irrelevant when the traveler can so easily find the information needed. The flow of information is now so rapid, it is truly impossible for a travel wiki to be up to date. Contrast that to the days when Wikitravel was formed when the only option available was printed guides such as The Lonely Planet which were out of date before they hit the bookshelves.--TheroadtoWiganPier (talk) 01:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I am a bit confused, what is there besides printed travel guides (or their internet derivatives) and Wikivoyage / Wikitravel? I mean Tripadvisor or aggregator websites are piss-poor travel resources. And the local tourism board propaganda website ranges from green ink crap to really good... So yeah, the up-to-dateness is an inherent problem of any content on the internet (including WP; just try to find out whether a certain train route is currently being upgraded or not and when it will be finished and what "finished" means), but which place is better in that regard when it comes to travel to say... Honduras? Avengerofthe BoN (talk) 01:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)