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# {{Support}} I feel that such kind of tourism website should be controlled by wikimedia foundation rather than some company only trying to make money. I have a strong feeling that more people would contribute to a travel guide controlled by wikimedia because wikimedia has a reputation of providing free information and this is one of the biggest reason why people donate their time for websites controlled by wikimedia. One of the biggest problem with current website wikitravel is that the data is provided by volunteers but the owners of the website make huge money and don't even update the website. Most of the people who contribute to wikitravel do it only because they think that this website is part of wikimedia foudnation which is an Non Profit Organization. As soon as it becomes known to people that wikitravel is not controlled by wikimedia they would stop volunteering. If wikimedia foundation controls the website then more and more people would contribute to it and it will also become as good as wikipedia. I know it very well that wikimedia foundation is always trying to make their website better, they have recently started an office in India and have organized conferences and advertisements motivating people to become part of wiki family so that more and more information could be provided but I have never heard of any such movement being organized by wikitravel which clearly means that they have nothing to do with what is happening with their website or what kind of information is being provided on it. I hope that wikimedia will start the website soon. [[User:Nandanupadhyay|Nandanupadhyay]] ([[User talk:Nandanupadhyay|talk]]) 04:56, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

# {{Support}} I am not a very technical person hence I don't know the technical reasons why WM controlled websites look better in technical terms but just as a regular user of WT and WM websites I would like to mention a few reasons why I think this project should be accomplished-

1)##At first we all like to keep our place clean which is not the case at all with WT because there are advertisements everywhere and of course we don't want to see them. Its just like getting unwanted SMS on mobile phones.

2)##I have a strong feeling that if WM hosts a travel guide then it would be much bigger, better and reliable comparing with WT. We could easily see it by checking articles for same place on WT and WM websites both. There are places which have an article on WM but not on WT. There are so many beautiful and interesting places where tourists would love to go but they don't have any article on WT whereas WM has got an article for those places. It clearly mean that more people have interest in WM than WT. Once WM starts hosting such articles more and more people would contribute and we will get good travel related articles. And it won't be a lot of work because we could easily sync some information from WM and other travel guide websites which have already agreed on helping with this project.

3)##The quality of articles will be much better than ones on WT because we will be able to use the pics and videos which are already uploaded on WMC.

4)##We will get a lot of new articles on new places because WM motivates people to contribute for their websites. They organize conferences which are followed by a lot of people and once people hear about this project they will be more likely to make new real travel related articles.

5)##I see a few people being concerned about starting a new project which will take years to complete but I think such project just could not be finished, its an ongoing process forever. Could we say that WT is complete now? Since there are already so many people working on WM, I don't really think that it will take much time for us to go bigger and better than WT.

6)##And finally I think that such websites like WM or WT are supposed to be for people and we could easily see that more people have interest and faith in WM. We have already seen how everything has always been better on WM websites than WT so we should definitely support WM for this project. [[User:Nandanupadhyay|Nandanupadhyay]] ([[User talk:Nandanupadhyay|talk]]) 06:17, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

# {{Support}} The strong complementarity and the willingness for the teams to join us means that this is not even a start-up project. The project will hit the ground running. For the travel-related stuff already in many geographical articles on WP, I'd be a lot less reticent to simply remove it when I come across it on Wikipedia (per [[:w:WP:NOT|WP:NOT]] and [[:w:WP:BOLD|WP:BOLD]]). --[[Special:Contributions/218.103.34.213|218.103.34.213]] 08:57, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

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