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Lack of vision and want. To a primary approximation, the Wikimedia Foundation allocates its meager resources based on site popularity, which is why Wikipedia will get virtually the entire love and the Foundation will have precisely zero Wikivoyage people on staff. This implies that not solely is the Foundation unlikely to have the ability to make the big investments wanted to deliver the positioning to the subsequent stage, however there won’t even be anybody who may direct these investments if the money and will out of the blue came up.
The last motion attributed to the defendants occurred on August 18, 2012, but Internet Brands solely applied to register Wikitravel” as a trademark on August 22, 2012. (Deep hyperlinks to the USPTO aren’t allowed, however strive a trademark search on TESS) Now, unregistered logos can still be trademarks, but it surely’s still interesting that IB apparently did not care about it until this year!
Wikitravel itself isn’t formally downloadable, though third-parties (reminiscent of WikiTeam) had created good backups before a lot of the neighborhood took their open-supply data and joined Wikimedia as Wikivoyage in 2012. Wikivoyage is obtainable at (exchange ‘en’ with the desired language, there’s additionally ‘fr’, ‘sv’, ‘de’, ‘it’, ‘ru´ and ‘nl’ with over one thousand pages each). This is the only technique to seize a duplicate of the Wikitravel data, simply download as the first dump after the Wikivoyage/Wikitravel break up was complete.
I went guidebook-free with some trepidation. Since my teenage years, Lonely Planet has been my traveling security blanket. Yes, the guides may be grumpy and self-righteous, and are so popular that they will flip any misplaced city into a grungy backpacker mecca. But Lonely Planet faithfully led me throughout Eastern Europe as a youngster and around East Asia thereafter, and I stay grateful. Going without felt like packing no underwear—doubtlessly liberating but just a little unnerving.