Travelguide
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Introduction
This is a wiki page created on basis of the Forum Thread. How should our Travelguide look like? What should it contain? How to connect the Travelguide woth the rest of the page?
Level - geographical entities we want to describe
What destictions have to be made on the different levels?
Common categories
- History Description
- Connections
- Moving In & Out
- Moving Around
- Particularities
- Special warning and caution to take (responsability Huh LV - abuse ...)
Country
- Particularities
- Cost of life
- communication general (mobile, internet café, wifi hot spot, phone booth...)
Cultural / Political Regions
- Top things to see and do
- Local Community
- Alternative place in the surrounding (villages and entities in the area - other LV in the area)
Natural Regions (vegetation, topography)
What about natural regions, like
- mountains, mountain range
- river, valley
- forest, swamps, sand dunes..
- lake
- island
- bay
- coastline
- natural parks, protected landscape
City
- Top things to see and do
- Particularities
- cheap supermarket cheap place to eat, vegetarian places, night life or opening hours (24h/7), (city level)
- snacks or local specialities and diet, (cooking groups?) (city level)
- if case apply, access to free public lavatory, (city level)
- alternative hosting possibility
- ATM and banking (currency)
- communication on the spot (mobile, internet café, wifi hot spot, phone booth...)
Local Community:
- members willing to meet for 'coffee' or wanting more guests
- second address member in that area (?)
- member's blog related to that place
- Accomodation and activity status in that area (subjective)
Design
How should our Traveguide look like?
License
Which License are we going to use for content provided by BW Members?
Languages
All sources we might integrate content from (Hitchwiki, WikiTravel, Wikivoyage (German), [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia) support at least German, English, Spanish and French.
It is not just aa question of "Do we have the capacity to run more languages" if not "Don t we have the obligation of run more languages"
If we integrate the most difficult Content the things that might have to be translated are very few and for example the German Wikipedia offers a lot more Information about little Vilages then the English does. Sometimes even the small Spanish Wikipedia is better then the english one.
Content
What do we want to display in our Travelguide and where do we get the Information from?
1- Description / History
The most summarised and abstract as possible would be best and a cooperation linking with wikipedia would be considered for further reading.
- This section could be supported by one member 'groups' possibly, blogger or any other groups that might have a certain aim at writting, describing, history or so...
- This section could be obtained from Wikipedia. The introductionary articel of Wikipedia is a good Introduction. Problem: There is no standard article for cities/redions countries.
2- Attractions, Sightseeing, Activities
(main attraction and out of tourist path) This should be a simple listing, possibly short description
Might be integrated from Wikitravel (Wikivoyage for German) pn region and city level. There is no "To Do" on Country level. BW Travelguide should not have this neither.
3- Connections, nearby places
Link to neighbouring entities, the municipality, regions that are in the same area and bordering in the matter of creating a better connectivity between our geo database,
This section should be forcibly filled as fast as possible, be under the responsability of the local volunteer as well as the geo adjuster (as being in their task descriptions). We should think of a possibility if this can be filled without having to be edit anymore, once it would be done it wouldnt need any changes usually.
It should be completed with the following information: Moving in and away: Transport (coach, airport, train, ferry, hitching) + Carshare!
"Get in" could be as well integrated via Wikitravel/Wikivoyage.
Hitching could be made in collaboration with hitchwiki, this sort of collaboration should be discussed, voted and officially supported by us! See for this: http://www.bevolunteer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1151.msg8440#new
Moving around: Public transit in the locality or the local area
Could be integrated via Wikitravel/Wikivoyage!
4- Particularities, local Infrastructure
- Special warning and caution to take (responsibility Huh LV - abuse ...)
- BeWelcome Content!
- Cost of life
- BeWelcome Content!
- details: including
- cheap supermarket cheap place to eat, vegetarian places, night life or opening hours (24h/7), (city level)
- "Eat" "Drink" could be integrated form Wikitravel/Wikivoyage!
- snacks or local specialities and diet, (cooking groups?) (city level)
- BeWelcome Content!
- if case apply, access to free public lavatory, (city level)
- BeWelcome Content!
- communication (mobile, internet café, wifi hot spot, phone booth...),
- BeWelcome Content!
- alternative hosting possibility,
- BeWelcome Content!
- ATM and banking (currency)
- BeWelcome Content!
- cheap supermarket cheap place to eat, vegetarian places, night life or opening hours (24h/7), (city level)
5- Local BW community
- meeting and gathering (calendar)
- This should be displayed at the city / Region / Country Page
- gathering in the surrounding (calendar)
- This should be displayed at the city / Region / Country Page
- Local Volunteer
- BeWelcome Content!
- Volunteer in other team
- BeWelcome Content!
- Verification volunteer in the area ???
- BeWelcome Content!
- Alternative place in the surrounding (villages and entities in the area - other LV in the area)
- BeWelcome Content!
- Accomodation and activity status in that area (subjective)
- BeWelcome Content!
- members willing to meet for 'coffee' or wanting more guests
- Should be integrated from BW Database!
- second address member in that area (?)
- Should be integrated from BW- Database
- member's blog related to that place
- Should be integrated from BW Database
6- Official links
Integrated from Wikipedia
Integratoin of Content
Problems:
- Is it possible to integrate just the introduction of a wiki page? Never saw a link just to edit this one
