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Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for the edits to Dalian and Nanjing.

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 * Wow, I tip my hat for you sir! excellent work on cleaning up and formating those Midwest articles, it's much appreciated, and badly needed. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) talk 16:34, 22 October 2009 (EDT)

 * One quick note - if there aren't a lot of hotels in a town, or if the article doesn't include any other hotel listings, then chain hotel listings are completely fine. It's valuable to let travelers know that there are at least one or two places to stay in a town. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 20:12, 22 October 2009 (EDT)

 * Adding a bit more to the previous comment, provided there is actually some information provided about the hotel that isn't marketing crap, listings for chain hotels are generally fine. If I'm traveling to another major city I'd generally prefer to stay in a place I've heard of unless there's a really good non-chain option available.  Project:Accomodation listings contains the site guidelines for hotel listings, and at present there is no policy against chains (with the caveat that marketing language is not appreciated per Project:Don't tout). -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 20:33, 22 October 2009 (EDT)

 * Yeah, I can see your point, both of you. I guess I just apply what was applied to restaurants and grocery chains: if someone can pick up a phone book and get the same sort of info., the content may not prove too helpful. But I can appreciate the fact you're saying leaving them on there and just getting rid of the mktg lang....I'll take a look at your references. Thx!(WT-en) Zepppep 20:37, 22 October 2009 (EDT)

Edits not showing up
Not to worry, you should just need to refresh your browser window. Wikivoyage has a page-caching problem that we've been trying to fix for some time... --(WT-en) Peter Talk 14:04, 26 October 2009 (EDT)

 * You are a lifesaver! Yes, that appeared to be the problem...unfortunately by the time the cache issue was resolved I edited it for the SECOND time! ARGH! At least the edits to the Sleep section I worked on are there, otherwise I was going to have to do those a SECOND time also...many thanks, Pete! (WT-en) Zepppep 14:21, 26 October 2009 (EDT)

Ann Arbor
Wait! We are supposed to have price ranges for restaurant listings, not average prices! Road abbreviations also should not include periods, although that is much easier to correct (using ctrl-H find & replace in MS notepad). When in doubt, checking a recent star article to see how it's formatted can be a good guide as to how to polish things up correctly—I recommend looking at Washington, D.C./Georgetown.

But make no mistake, Ann Arbor does need a big clean up to hold on to its star status—thank you for taking on the hard work! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 18:14, 18 November 2009 (EST)

 * Re: abbreviation periods: say the word and I'll make that correction. I don't want to do it and cause an annoying edit conflict for you. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 18:15, 18 November 2009 (EST)

 * The trick is that everything else you did in those painstaking edits was extremely useful ;) If you are up to it, you could go back and restore the price ranges one by one by hand . Otherwise, a revert will be necessary, but will undo the rest of your hard formatting work! The abbreviations, on the other hand, are really easy to fix. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 15:19, 19 November 2009 (EST)

Great work
Just wanted to stop by and thank you for all the formatting work you've been doing—our articles need it! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 01:12, 2 December 2009 (EST)

 * Thanks from me as well for the cleanup you're doing on the Hawaii articles - they get messy quickly, so getting them in shape is hugely helpful. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:52, 12 April 2011 (EDT)

Great work on London articles
Really well done on the formatting work on various London articles. Now that the major re-organisation is done, this is just what we need. For the areas I know well, I might make a few changes to some of your categorisations and please don't take those the wrong way. In Soho for example some of the sub-section distinctions are very hard to make (regional cuisine, pubs versus bars). Thanks again for all the work and please keep it up! If ever anything is not clear, please do drop a note on my talk page. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 21:14, 16 December 2009 (EST)

Abbreviations
There's no need to abbreviate every measurement, particularly when it would look awkward in prose text (listings tend to be stricter). Times given in minutes aren't necessarily abbreviated at all, and even normally-abbreviated units like length can be written out in full if it's more natural in context. - (WT-en) D. Guillaime 17:48, 22 December 2009 (EST)

London cotm
Since you were so instrumental in making the London cotm our most successful collaboration of all time, I thought you might like to look over the results. Thanks again for your help! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 14:13, 1 January 2010 (EST)

 * Ah, I think we've decided to hold off on the next CotM until February—see Project:Collaboration of the month. Great to hear that you're up and ready to go with another, though!

 * In the meantime, there's plenty of good mos work to do around the site—I'd recommend looking at Category:Articles needing attention. The length of the list there might seem a little daunting, but you do a great job with the mos work, so the site would benefit a lot if you give those articles some attention! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:24, 7 January 2010 (EST)

 * If you're up for formatting/proofing work, Antigua Guatemala has been languishing on the dotm page, waiting only for someone to clean it up... ;) --(WT-en) Peter Talk 17:02, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Consulates
I just wanted to offer a huge thank you for adding all these consulate listings to our American cities. I didn't even know some of these places (Albuquerque, for instance) even had consulates! So a huge thank you! (WT-en) PerryPlanet Talk 16:17, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

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 * Hi! Me again. That's the famous Project:No_advice_from_Captain_Obvious policy. Great start with the talk page. (WT-en) Jc8136 07:08, 26 July 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zhangkeye

Beijing airport, seaport van pick up service, rental car service, tour guide assistant. Email: zhangkeye@hotmail.com Mobile Telephone: +86 1362 104 2428 My name is Tony. I am an English speaking tour guide professional driver with a detailed knowledge of Beijing’s major tourist and business destinations. My all vehicles are clean, late model, fully equipped, and fully insured professional vehicles. I can transport 12 passengers or less for 59.00 USD per pick-up. Please call me directly on my mobile telephone or email me for any questions. I can meet you or your guests at the airport. I can also transport you to and from meetings, conventions, or tourist attractions. Airport seaport Benz van pick up service, rental car service, with tour guide assistant. Email: zhangkeye@hotmail.com i am a local quilified tour guide my name is Tony zhang, to great wall, to forbbiden city and temple of heaven ,which one do you perfer ? booking my Benz Van / car or reservation hotel room, contact me directly, better service to you ,van service fee and tour guide service fee both lower than the tour agent ,i am always at Beijing airport waiting for you arrival! Rental car service, beijing Benz van airport pick up service，To xingang seaport drop off service. To diamond princess cruise ship transfer service. beijing airport to the Hilton / Marriott hotel only charging $59, under 12 passenger. quilified driver safe for all of us. email: zhangkeye@hotmail.com cellphone: +86 1362 104 2428  Tony

THANK YOU ! (please reservation at least 4 hours before, in high tour season) Hope hear from you soon my dear guest.

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Hello，my name is zhanqin ，my English name is eva，I graduated from the international business college in fujian province on 2008 I has alone travel more than half of china. For example sichun province、yunnan province Tibet  and so on in the college. If you like to hiking ,we will go to Motuo city which has not only highway so far in china .so we go there on foot ten days ,we will bring our sleeping bag tent stoves .there is the custom of polyandry and many legends. If you like to adventure ,we go to Tiger Leaping Gorge in yunnan province, It belongs to a section of the Silk Road journey, in between the haba snow Mountain and the Yulong Snow Mountain, elevation 3,000 meters above. Here is dangerous is the most well-known. If you like to climbing mountain ,we go to siguniang snow mountain …. If you like to ……………….we go to ……………. Yes lam not professional travel ,but I have a lot of experience and qualifications in travel. I believe I bring you many of interest stores And the original Chinese unlike tours,I only take a person travel If you need help ,please contract me by e-mail and phone My e-mail dress is zhanqin326@hotmail.com  or zhanqin326@163.com My phone no is 13285955945 I look forward to your letter

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 * Thanks for the great work at Hengyang. Please keep it up!--(WT-en) Burmesedays 04:28, 11 June 2011 (EDT)

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珠海外伶仃岛雄奇俊秀，主峰伶仃峰高达311.8米，并深藏珠海特有的由奇礁异石组成的天然石景公园“雾海仙槎”，堪称大自然的神来之笔. 登高望远，可见群岛星罗棋布；逐浪飞舟，更觉波涛激荡，沧海横流. 薰风丽日里，伶仃洋上蔚蓝相接，海天一色；薄雾黄昏时，霞绯映海，金象海天，渔舟唱晚；云霓雨雾中，香江景物时隐时现，恍如海市蜃楼.

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Welcome
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 * We don't usually use categories here on Wikivoyage -- please see Project:Categories. (WT-en) Jpatokal 04:06, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

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Thank you for contributing to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland -- (WT-en) Huttite 04:33, 3 Jan 2005 (EST)

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See my user page in Wikipedia.

Messages to / Discussions with Zingi
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Links to Wikipedia
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 * Nice work on Kaunas mate! --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) talk 09:39, 20 December 2009 (EST)

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Please don't tout. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) talk 08:54, 13 December 2009 (EST)

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Um, what exactly are you trying to do with Shanghai? You removed a fair chunk of content. Please discuss first on Talk:Shanghai. (WT-en) Jpatokal 10:27, 27 January 2009 (EST)

 * Zohar, you have been asked to discuss any mass deletions of content. We will keep reverting your edits until you do so. (WT-en) Nrms 10:57, 27 January 2009 (EST)

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Thank you for all the fantastic work on Chicago! And sorry for the belated welcome ;) One thing to look out for, though, is potentially adding so much good transit information (bus routes) that the information becomes overwhelming for the reader—it's getting hard to make it through the long list at Chicago/Far Northwest Side, for example. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 13:26, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

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Hello! We're a bit late with this... but Welcome to Wikivoyage!

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Okay, now i m here... I hope i want make to many mistakes ;-) and contribute a bit... Zottel

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Please read Don't tout. (WT-en) Jpatokal 09:50, 15 April 2008 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) ZRV

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Sapphire 20:50, 23 September 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zubba0202

Hello Zubba0202! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. If you have any questions ask me, please! Keep smiling, (WT-en) edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 19:23, 18 November 2008 (EST).

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User talk:(WT-en) Zucki123

Make sure you also review other authors properly in this section:

Sonscape, Phone: 345-948-1682, e-mail lueck@candw.ky. Full apartment available overlooking the opening onto the sandy beach. Escape stress in this ocean front guest house. Sonscape, is your island paradise with swaying palms, tropical breezes, and great snorkeling, Stroll our deserted sandy beach, relax in hammocks, enjoy magnificent sunsets and incredible stars. Refresh in tranquility. Locals claim this sandy beach is the best spot on Cayman Brac to watch the sunsets and catch a green flash!

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User talk:(WT-en) Zul9

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. ::: (WT-en) Cacahuate 06:07, 19 January 2007 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zulfekhar

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for plunging forward so far. If you're going to continue working on Wikivoyage, you may find the tips for new contributors helpful.

You should also make sure you understand our copyleft and policies and guidelines. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub or on the talk page for the most appropriate article.

Probably of interest to you is our guideline on external links. --(WT-en) Evan 08:12, 16 Aug 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zumbble

Hello, Zumbble! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Images
Would you please specify a source for the images you have uploaded (where you got it). We can only allow images here that are compatible with our licensing, and it's necessary to state where you get images from when uploading. Also, for future reference, contributors are discouraged from uploading pictures directly here; upload them to Shared instead, so people from all language versions can use them. Thanks! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:03, 14 April 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zverzver

Hello, Zverzver! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for adding that great photo of Anchorage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 10:51, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Ocean City & the Project:Maryland Expedition
Hey thanks for the good edits on Ocean City. It's currently a top priority of the Project:Maryland Expedition to get that article up to usable status. The needed changes are detailed on the expedition page, in case you'd like to help us get there (mostly it just needs a couple bar/club listings). --(WT-en) Peter Talk 00:22, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

Pictures
Hello. We appreciate the uploading of pictures, but all pictures should be uploaded to Wikivoyage Shared. If you look to the left there is a link under "toolbox" which says "Upload file". If you click there, it tells you to upload pictures to Wikivoyage Shared and provides the link to do so. The pictures are very good, we just need them on Wikivoyage Shared...not here. (WT-en) AHeneen 06:20, 9 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zvika

Please leave messages for me at on the Hebrew WikiTravel. I will respond in English if you leave your message in English.

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User talk:(WT-en) Zxcde

Welcome
Hello, Zxcde! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

You have made several factually inaccurate contributions, so be sure to cite a reference on either the article talk page or in the edit summary in the future, otherwise your edits are unlikely to be trusted. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 22:16, 30 December 2010 (EST)

 * I'd like to point out again that edits you have made in the past proved to be untrustworthy, and you should expect any further edits you make to be immediately reverted. If you would like to contribute in a positive manner please discuss any proposed changes first. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 11:46, 12 January 2011 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zxcvbnm17

Welcome
Hello, Zxcvbnm17! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

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User talk:(WT-en) Zy

Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Sapphire • (Talk) • 01:38, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Zythiel

Hello Zythiel! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

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User talk:(WT-en) Zyxily

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. I would recommend to start with our Tips for new contributors if you feel like it. To specialize your experience you may want to consider editing your preferences. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to the whole wiki software look at the wiki markup to get an idea of how to use the wiki markup. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Cacahuate 07:05, 15 January 2007 (EST)

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Wikivoyage:10K Party

To celebrate Wikivoyage's ten thousandth article in the English language version (as well as the 3-year anniversary of the project's founding), we'll be having a 10K Party in Cambridge on August 4, 2006. The event will be coordinated with the Wikimania 2006 event.

The event will be at Tommy Doyle's Irish Pub, 96 Winthrop Street (Harvard Square), Cambridge, from 7:30-10PM.

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Wikivoyage:18 October 2009

Wikivoyage has reached another milestone, the project has now seen over 2 million edits since it's inception.

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Wikivoyage:Wikitravel Press/1 February 2008

Wikitravel Press publishes first books
It's been a long road to get here, but today I have the immense pleasure of announcing the publication of the first two books from Wikitravel Press:

 * Wikitravel Chicago, edited by User:(WT-en) Gorilla Jones and User:(WT-en) Peterfitzgerald, 469 pages, $18.99
 * Wikitravel Singapore, edited by User:(WT-en) Jpatokal, 169 pages, $14.99

We have a solid pipeline of more books coming up soon and, thanks to data from OpenStreetMap, we'll also be upgrading and creating many new great maps for Wikitravel: see Project:How to draw a map for the full scoop.

After extensive discussions on wts:Talk:Advertising policy, we have also launched advertisements in the right sidebar, as you can see on this page. These are only visible on those articles included in the books above (that is, Singapore and Chicago districts), so the rest of your Wikitravel browsing experience is unaffected.

I'm happy to field any questions, bouquets, brickbats or bug reports about the books, pricing, ads, technology etc, but please do take a peek at the FAQ first. If you'd like to join our mailing list or propose your own guide, take a look at Contact. (WT-en) Jpatokal 23:06, 31 January 2008 (EST)

 * I'm really glad that we're at this point too. It's been a goal of the Wikitravel project since day one to create printed guidebooks, and I'm glad that we've finally reached a point where the quality and volume of information on Wikitravel justifies making these books.

 * Thanks to everyone who's made Free travel books possible. --(WT-en) Evan 09:49, 1 February 2008 (EST)

 * I just wanted to chime in and say how great it is to see our dream of providing up-to-date printed travel guides become a reality. We've come a long way from a crazy idea on a Thailand beach and it was only possibly because of the great community of travellers who shared our frustration with traditional travel guides and knew we could do better! Thanks everyone! (WT-en) Maj 12:19, 7 February 2008 (EST)


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Wikivoyage:20 April 2006

Important news about Wikitravel
We're pretty excited to share some big news with the Wikitravel community.

Wikitravel has had immense growth in the last 12 months – both in its size and in the maturity of our guides and our community. Wiki is so strange that way: the more contributors, the better the content we make; and the better the content, the more contributors we attract. But there's still so much left to do to reach our goal: to make a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. We're taking big steps today to get closer to that goal.

As many of you know, a similar project to Wikitravel exists on the Web: World66. Like us, they've been working hard to create a travel guide of global scope. Like us, they use wiki to make the guides reliable and up-to-date. And like us, they use a Creative Commons license to keep their content Free.

Starting today, our two projects will be working together to achieve our common goal. We think the melding of these two sites is going to make a project that's greater than the sum of its parts. It's not going to be easy: we have technical hurdles and potential culture clashes to deal with. But this is the Next Big Step for Wikitravel and World66.

We plan to keep both domains "live", but gradually reduce the overlap between World66 and Wikitravel, and emphasize their different strengths. We're going to be concentrating more of the objective, consensus guide content on Wikitravel, and expanding the role of personal experience, reviews, opinions and ratings on World66.

This is going to be a commercial venture. The two sites are now owned by an American company called Internet Brands, Inc. (IB) which operates a number of consumer information sites. They've provided the leadership and resources to bring our two projects together, and although we were initially wary, we've been won over by their management team's understanding of what Wikitravel and World66 are trying to do.

There's no hidden agenda; the business model will be extremely transparent. The current plan is to have unobtrusive, targeted, well-identified ads on the pages of Wikitravel. Not today, not tomorrow, but not far off, either. Ads will support new hardware and the two of us (Evan and Maj) so we can concentrate full-time on development and sysadmin effort, as well as other developers, designers, and staff. IB is committed to working with the community on an advertising policy that is fair and productive, and makes sure that the integrity of the guides is never compromised.

But that's the future. For today, tomorrow, next week, next month, Wikitravel is going to remain the same site you're used to. We're going to stay on the excellent MediaWiki platform that has served us so well. We're going to continue to support multiple languages, and we're going to keep using the great license that Creative Commons worked so hard to make for us. And of course, the community will continue to make its own decisions and policies.

The two of us are so proud – so honored -- that you've let us act as stewards for your project this last 3 years. We don't take you for granted; we know we will have to continue to earn your trust. The people at IB, and Richard, Douwe, Hans-Peter and Giorgio of World66 know that too.

There are some people who are going to hear commercial or advertising and head right for the door. We hope that the rest of you give us the benefit of the doubt. We don't think "community" and "commercial" have to be opposite terms. What this community has done with Wikitravel is important, and we're committed to being good custodians for the impressive guide you're making.

There's a lot to talk about, and the two of us will be here on the site, on IRC, and on the mailing list to answer questions when we can. Thanks for taking the time to read this; thanks again for letting us help you with your project. -- (WT-en) Evan 09:02, 20 April 2006 (EDT) / (WT-en) Majnoona 09:02, 20 April 2006 (EDT)

 * Press release here. (WT-en) Jpatokal 09:35, 20 April 2006 (EDT)

 * P.S. Special thanks to the admins who've translated this message into other languages (see interwiki for links). We're going to monitor the other language versions, but it's nice to get the message out. --(WT-en) Evan 12:17, 20 April 2006 (EDT)

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Wikivoyage:Wikitravel Press/3 August 2007

Wikitravel Press
Today I have the pleasure of unveiling Wikitravel Press (WTP), an independent company that will publish printed guidebooks based on Wikitravel content.

The model is simple: text and images will be selected from Wikitravel, combined, abridged or changed by (paid) editors, published on demand and shipped anywhere in the world. This means that Wikitravel guidebooks will have up-to-date and reliable information, eliminating the infuriating years-long gap between research and publication that inspired Wikitravel itself.

Wikitravel Press is a commercial venture, owned and operated by Jani, Michele and Evan. Internet Brands has licensed the Wikitravel trademark to the company, but is not managing and does not own the company. Books will be sold at competitive prices (typically US$10-20 plus shipping and other fees), initially through the Web and later through other channels. Per the Wikitravel copyleft, the books themselves will also be subject to the same Creative Commons license as Wikitravel Web pages, so they can be copied and reused freely. Wikitravel Press will hire book editors to assemble relevant destination guides, abridge or expand them, and make final copy-editing and fact-checking tasks. Where this work coincides with the Wikitravel manual of style, they'll contribute that work directly back onto wikitravel.org.

Book editors may be existing Wikitravellers with exceptional domain knowledge and language and research skills; they may also be professional editors or freelance travel writers. Book editors will be held to a strict code of conduct in their interactions with other Wikitravel community members. They will not have any extra authority of any sort on the website. In particular, they don't get "final say" on any article.

On related Wikitravel destination guide pages, there will be non-intrusive links to the wikitravelpress.com site to buy a copy of the book that includes that guide. As usual, input from the community will be an important part of the process in determining the placement of these links.

Our expectation is to begin shipping the first titles in the Wikitravel Press travel guide series in Fall 2007. Our initial books will be pre-assembled; typical books will be city guidebooks, regional guidebooks, and country guidebooks. Our first books will be in English, but we hope to quickly provide guidebooks in other Wikitravel languages. In the future we hope to provide "ad hoc" books, so you can assemble a guidebook from several different destinations.

Our goal with this announcement is to solicit community feedback on the plan. What are your expectations for a guidebook based on Wikitravel content? What would you consider acceptable and unacceptable conduct by a Wikitravel Press book editor? What kind of guidebooks would you be interested in? (WT-en) Jpatokal 21:03, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

 * I just want to jump in and say how excited I am personally about this project. This is a goal that has been unfulfilled for too long. I hope that printed guidebooks will help the general public see and use the great work that Wikitravellers have done over the last 4 years. Thanks so much to Jani for making this important milestone happen. --(WT-en) Evan 21:12, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

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Wikivoyage:Abbreviations

Editors are encouraged to use commonly known abbreviations in listings. These abbreviations should ideally be uniform and consistent and generally should not include full stops or periods.

Editors may want to choose the appropriate abbreviation from those below which are both widely understood and unambiguous. However, don't knock yourself out "correcting" Rt to Rte – there is more important work to be done in plunging forward and writing the world's most complete and accurate free travel guide!

Addresses, etc.

 * 1F is "1st floor", 2F is "2nd floor", etc.
 * East, North, South, and West: E, N, S, W (can also be combined into NE for Northeast, etc.)
 * But don't abbreviate if it's the name of the street! Use "101 E Main St", but "202 East Ave".
 * You can also avoid confusing by not abbreviating when used with streets whose names are letters: "Ave Q East" rather than "Ave Q E", and "East D St" rather than "E D St"
 * Avenue: Ave
 * Building: Bldg
 * Boulevard: Blvd
 * Drive: Dr
 * Expressway: Expy
 * Freeway: Fwy
 * Highway: Hwy
 * Jalan: Jl (Road in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore)
 * Lane: Ln
 * Mount/Mountain: Mt
 * Parkway: Pkwy
 * Place: Pl
 * Road: Rd
 * Route: Rte
 * Square: Sq
 * Street: St

U.S. routes
Numbered highways in the U.S. are abbreviated as follows:
 * Interstates: I-80
 * National highways: US-395
 * State highways: CA-49
 * For county routes or other smaller roads, spell it out completely.

Australian/New Zealand routes
Numbered highways in some states of Australia are abbreviated as follows:
 * National Highways: NH 87 or Hwy 87
 * National Routes: NR 17 or Hwy 17
 * State Routes: SR 142 or Hwy 142
 * For alternate State Routes, add an "Alt-" before the route number (e.g. Alt-SR 89)
 * Tourist Drives: TD33
 * For alphanumeric routes or other smaller roads, spell it out completely (e.g. C327 or Newell Highway).
 * New Zealand State Highways: SH16

Countries
Some country abbreviations include periods while others do not:

 * "United Kingdom" should be abbreviated as UK without full stops, not U.K. (and not G.B. or GB, which is not coterminous with the UK)
 * "United States of America" is an exception to our general rule that abbreviations should not include full stops or periods and should be abbreviated as U.S. (with periods)
 * "United Arab Emirates" should also be abbreviated similar to the UK as UAE.
 * "Papua New Guinea" should be abbreviated without full stops, similar to the UK and the UAE as PNG.

States and provinces
Because many of our readers aren't familiar with state and provincial abbreviations, generally it is preferred to spell out their names: for example, use "Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota" instead of "MA, MD, MN"; "Western Australia, Queensland", instead of "WA, Qld"; and "New Brunswick, Alberta", instead of "NB, AB".

Currencies
See: Currency

Dates and times
See: Time and date formats

Facilities

 * Wi-Fi is used for wireless Internet using access points (hotspots) (not WiFi nor Wifi)

Measurements
See: Measurements

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Wikivoyage:About

Wikivoyage ([//wikivoyage.org wikivoyage.org]) is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. Wikivoyage is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other project such as Wikipedia.

It was originally a fork of Wikitravel that started in 2006. In 2013, it became a project of Wikimedia Foundation, the same non-profit organisation that owns and operates the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Wikivoyage is built in collaboration by volunteer authors from around the globe who write without pay, with the spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikivoyage articles and editors can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.

To create Wikivoyage we use a tool (or a process, or a technology) called a wiki which lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and illustrate any article on the website. We all share our pieces of knowledge, edit them, distill them, and assemble them into a pleasing and cohesive whole. The more people that use the Edit link, the better Wikivoyage becomes.

Wikivoyage is a live collaboration, differing from paper-based traditional guide books in important ways. Unlike traditional guide books, Wikivoyage is continually edited and updated; unlike traditional travel guides, which are revised monthly or annually, Wikivoyage's guides are edited and updated continuously, as information changes rapidly. Vandalism is usually reverted within minutes.

We've achieved some milestones, but we still have a long way to go. If you're new to Wikivoyage, feel free to plunge forward and help us!

Why Wikivoyage
At some point you may ask yourself: "Why edit and use Wikivoyage when there are already well-developed travel guides such as Lonely Planet?". Here are some good reasons.

 * The great thing about Wikivoyage is that it is open content, released under Creative Commons license, as opposed to traditional guide books, whose copyright owners can decide how others can use or share their contents. Knowing this encourages people to contribute: they know it's a public project that everyone can use.
 * While traditional travel guides might be revised monthly or annually, Wikivoyage's guides are edited and updated on a regular basis and information often changes rapidly.
 * Errors to Wikivoyage guides are usually corrected as soon as they are found, rather than within months or years, as it would be for a printed travel guide. If someone sees something wrong within an article or if a restaurant or hotel shuts down, they can amend the page themselves. Compare that to the long, arduous and tedious process that it requires to report and fix a problem in a printed travel guide.
 * Unlike traditional guides, where one needs to be an experienced writer, Wikivoyage has no qualification requirements. Even if you're not the best at writing, you're most welcome here. In addition, there are no assignments, meaning that anyone can find an article on a part of the world that interests them and edit it immediately.
 * Wikivoyage guides are very easy to edit. Anyone can click the "edit" button and get to work. Obtaining formal peer review for edits is not necessary at all, since review is a communal function here and everyone who reads an article and corrects it is a reviewer. Essentially, Wikivoyage is self-correcting: over time, articles improve from a multitude of contributions. There is an entire infrastructure for people seeking comments, or other opinions on editorial matters. We prefer (in most cases) that people just go in and make changes they deem necessary; the community is by and large quick to respond to dubious edits (if any) and either revert or question them – and to improve wording and formatting where needed. This is very efficient; our efforts seem more constructive than those in traditional guide books.
 * Unlike Wikipedians, we're not bound to provide sources of what we write. We're allowed to freely express a destination, but in fair manner. See also Wikivoyage and Wikipedia.
 * And last, but not least, Wikivoyage is part of a great organization supporting free knowledge for everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation – a sister project of the world-renowned Wikipedia.

Wikivoyagers

 * "[Crew] wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." – Apocryphal recruitment poster for 1914 Antarctic expedition of the Endurance

Wikivoyagers are travel writers and members of a world-wide community of contributors to Wikivoyage. Wikivoyagers are not a special secret organization or a limited group. We are people just like you. Some of us are interested in travelling, some are interested in their local communities, and others are interested in wiki-housekeeping and organisation. What all of us have in common is that we want to share what we know with travellers everywhere. You can become a Wikivoyager right now! We need your help to make this project a success. We have a long way to go – and anything you can do to contribute gets us that much closer.

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Wikivoyage:Access Expedition

The Access Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to enhance the travelling experience of those with a physical impairment who use the Wikivoyage guides.

Rationale
Wikivoyage is a guide for all travellers. As far as is practicable, it should contain accessibility information useful to travelers with different capabilities. As a collaborative guide written by travelers and locals combined with input from business owners, it is uniquely positioned to do so.

Goals

 * Determine the best methods, standards and templates for documenting access information in the transport and listing sections of our guides.
 * Enhance the content relating to access in our guides.
 * Enhance the accessibility of our guides themselves.
 * Request and advocate for changes to our listing templates to incorporate access information.

 * Encourage Wikivoyagers to include access information when they visit a place or attraction.
 * Encourage business owners to include access information to their own listings.
 * Encourage Wikivoyagers to update access information for their local area, in the agreed manner.

Current situation

 * We don't have any second level subheadings in our templates related to accessibility.
 * We do encourage accessibility information to be embedded in our Get around and Get in sections, and a third level heading is sometimes appropriate. There is no standard for the third level heading when it is used.
 * We do encourage accessibility information to be added to listings (accommodation and attractions). However, there is no field in our standard template in which to enter it.
 * We do have two travel topics for disabled travel, but these are poorly developed, and it is unclear whether this way of presenting this information has wide support. (Travellers with disabilities and Disabled travel in South Africa)
 * Our goals of making a printed guide and incorporating information other than linking it, together with using standard wikimedia software that can be utilised by software tools for the visually impaired and the deaf, enhance the accessibility of our guide.

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Wikivoyage:Administrators' handbook

The Administrators' handbook is a manual for how to use sysop-level tools.

Rollbacks
The rollback button is essentially the same as the "undo" tool, except it removes some steps and has added functionality to help administrators and patrollers handle unwanted edits. Clicking the rollback button will automatically undo the last edit to a given page and any consecutive previous edits made by the same editor to that page and will also mark the edits in question as patrolled. There is no additional confirmation step for rollbacks, so make sure you want to do this before clicking the button. There is also is no way to leave a comment when rolling back edits, so consider using the undo tool if you would like to leave an edit summary. If you would like to use rollback with an edit summary, consider using the TwinkleGlobal extension.

The rollback button is available from "edit differences," article histories, and user contributions. The biggest advantage of this tool is the ability to quickly revert all edits from one user, by simply clicking all the rollback buttons so that they open in new tabs.

Rollbacks are a hard (and potentially insulting) measure, and should mostly be used for vandalism and spam. Good faith edits should be undone with an explanation in the edit summary.

Global rollbackers and Stewards also have the rollback tool.

Move reverts
Move reverts are a more specialized tool, useful for quickly undoing move vandalism (i.e., moving many pages to nonsense names). This feature is accessible from the move log. Clicking the revert button will take you to a confirmation screen, where you should also choose to move back the associated talk page. It's best to uncheck the "Leave a redirect behind" option in the form if the move was purely vandalism. To speed up the process, open the revert confirmations in new tabs, leaving the move log open.

Deleting & restoring pages
Administrators can delete any page, per the rules outlined by the deletion policy. Pages with over 5000 revisions have to be deleted by stewards and that can be requested on meta.

If an article was improperly deleted, or was successfully voted for undeletion, an administrator can restore the page from the deleted page itself, or from the Deletion log.

Protecting pages
Page protection is generally a tool of last resort. We are a wiki, and allowing anyone to edit any page at any time without exception is a guiding principle of how we operate. If an article is being repeatedly vandalized, it is almost always better to simply add that article to your watchlist and revert the edits. Over time, this discourages most vandals. One might object, on the basis that there are some unusually persistent editors, who just won't give up, and continue to add their unwanted edits daily, even for years! But this is a very small subsect of Wikivoyage contributors, and it is not worth it to compromise our basic principles for their sake. We can and do control these problems through watchlisting the affected pages, reverts, occasional additions to the spam blacklist, and coordination at Project:Vandalism in progress.

Exceptional cases do exist, for which we have established consensus on the corresponding article talk page, but these cases are governed by the (strict) Protected page policy, and are rare.

Administrators may, at their discretion, temp protect a page undergoing high volume unwanted edits (i.e., a revert war), but the time spans on such temp protects should be short, no more than a cooling-off period.

To protect a page, simply click the protect tab at the top of any article, and fill out the confirmation form. You can set the expiry time either by setting the duration or the end time. Examples:

2 hours 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours 32 minutes 05:44, 8 December 2012 (UTC) 8 December 22:14

Semiprotection

Blocks/bans
User bans/IP bans are perhaps our least favorite tool of all, and extraordinarily ineffective in the anonymous, dynamic IP-loving world of the internet. Their use is governed by Project:How to handle unwanted edits.

Users can be blocked from their respective pages, Special:Recentchanges, Special:Watchlist, page histories, edit differences, and the logs, by clicking on the block button. Don't institute bans without adding an entry to Project:User ban nominations. If you have any doubt at all as to whether you should institute a block, definitely wait through the 3-day process on the nominations page before instituting it. Recently applied blocks can be seen from Special:Log/block.

Permanent blocks are very rare.

Blocks exempt from the nominations process include spambot blocks (which should be permanent except in the case of IPs, which should normally be blocked for 1 month, since the same IP could be used later by a completely innocent party); and temp blocks to halt extremely high-volume vandalism (i.e., move vandalism), in order to create space to clean it up. Temp blocks may not exceed a span of one day—longer blocks must first be nominated at Project:User ban nominations.

Expiries are set the same way as protects, described above.

The form's boxes "Prevent account creation" and "Automatically block the last IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IP addresses they try to edit from" are automatically checked, and almost always should be left checked. "Prevent user from sending e-mail" is optional—do you suspect the user would abuse this privilege? "Prevent this user from editing their own talk page while blocked" should almost always be left unchecked, so that users have a way to petition their ban. Only in rather extreme cases should they be blocked from editing their talk page, and should in such a case have a way to email admins.

It is also possible to block a range of ips, see mw:Help:Range blocks for guidance, but don't try this unless you understand what you are doing! The policy governing their use is here.

Abuse filters
The AbuseFilter extension allows administrators to set specific actions to be taken when actions by users, such as edits, match certain criteria. For example, an edit filter could be created to prevent anonymous users from adding external links or warn (or temporarily block) new users who are blanking entire pages.

This is usually used to block specific patterns of vandalism; the sites advertised by spammers are more readily blocked by adding them to the Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist.

The abuse filters often give false positives; mistakes can make them block loads of good-faith edits. Therefore, Special:AbuseLog should be checked regularly, or at least from time to time, and closely monitored after any changes. You can also check how a modified filter matches recent edits before saving the modifications.

If a user complains about a blocked good-faith edit, check the abuse log link from their contributions page. There you can see what filter is the culprit (the "warning" or "disallowed" entries), and what the tried changes were. The edit might have been blocked for a reason (a bad wording, a blocked URL) or, if the edit seems innocent, it may contain keywords caught by a too tight filter (compare the Scunthorpe problem) or a plain error in it.

Watchlist
It is important that administrators follow policy developments that affect the use of these tools. To be sure you do not miss important policy changes and discussions, add the following pages to your watchlist:

 * Administrators
 * How to handle unwanted edits
 * Consensus
 * Deletion policy and Votes for deletion
 * Protected pages and Protected page policy
 * Spam filter and MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
 * User ban nominations

Less crucial, but still worth monitoring are:

 * CheckUser
 * Edit war
 * How to revert a page
 * No real world threats
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Votes for undeletion

Bureaucrats used to watch the following pages, which are now superseded by Single Unified Login (SUL):

 * Changing username/Open requests
 * User account migration

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Administrators are Wikivoyagers who have been nominated by the Wikivoyage community and been granted some additional privileges over and above normal. Administrators have shown a good appreciation of the Wikivoyage policies and guidelines and made significant contributions on Wikivoyage articles. The main features available only to administrators are:

 * Deleting/restoring a page/file. Only administrators can delete an article or file; see the Deletion policy for details. They can also restore a page which has been deleted.
 * Selectively delete page revisions. Administrators can choose certain revisions from a page's history to remove from public view using RevisionDelete. Oversight, which also removes it from the view of administrators, is only available to the "oversighter" user group and stewards from Meta Wiki. See RevisionDelete on mediawiki.org for more details.
 * Protecting/unprotecting a page. An administrator can mark certain pages as protected; these pages can only be edited by other administrators (and in some cases, template editors and autoconfirmed users). See the Protected page policy for details.
 * Blocking and unblocking IP addresses and users. If an IP address or a user account has been used for vandalism, and the perpetrator does not comply with given warnings, an administrator can block (and unblock) the user. This feature is used as a last resort when other methods of engaging a user and encouraging a change of behaviour have failed.
 * Editing the AbuseFilter.
 * Adding or removing users from patroller, template editors and autopatroller groups.  They can also set/remove the IP block exemption flag to any user. This cannot be done by global sysops.

The decision to give these privileges to certain users is pragmatic. Most vandalism and other changes that don't conform to policy can be reverted or changed by any Wikivoyager. And you only need the patroller rights in order to have the rollback tool, by which you can undo the most recent editor's consecutive edits on a page in a single action.

Note that plenty of longtime Wikivoyagers may not want the responsibility of being an administrator. Administrators are the plumbers and janitors of Wikivoyage, and are asked to help perform some mundane tasks. Administrator status is not a reward; the admin role simply indicates that the Wikivoyage community feels that a user has a good understanding of Wikivoyage's policies.

It's also important to remember that any user can edit, change, redirect, move, or otherwise muck with almost any article on Wikivoyage. It's not really necessary to wait for an administrator to do some "administrative" work; in fact, it's best to just plunge forward and do the job yourself.

Nomination
If you think a Wikivoyager – including yourself! – should become a Wikivoyage administrator, post their name on the user rights nominations page with a brief description of why the Wikivoyager should have administrator privileges. Include some evidence of understanding and experience with community policies.

There are no carved-in-stone requirements, but the following are generally considered advantageous:

 * A track record of at least a few months
 * A firm understanding of Wikivoyage policies and conventions
 * Active participation in policy discussions and settling disputes
 * Doing janitorial work like cleaning up vandalism and spam
 * A demonstrated ability to work well within the community
 * Being nominated by another administrator

Discussion
All members of the community are invited to comment or give their opinion of the nomination.

If, after 14 days of discussion: a bureaucrat will grant them admin status.
 * there is a consensus supporting the nomination from the community, including at least two administrators,
 * the user has indicated a willingness to take on the job of administration, and
 * attempts have been made to address any relevant objections to the nomination, and those who object have been given sufficient time to argue their case or withdraw their objection,

If valid concerns with a nomination are raised by a member of the community that cause them to oppose a nomination, it is courteous to allow the nominee or nominator some time to respond to the concern or to withdraw their nomination. The decision is not a vote, and piling on oppose votes adds no weight to the issues raised, and can be embarrassing to the nominee.

There is no requirement to wait for any specified period if it is clear that there is no support, or if the nomination does not comply with the nomination procedures or guidelines as listed on this page and the nominations page. After courteously notifying both the nominator and nominee, the nomination can be closed and archived.

Administrators are not expected to spend all their waking hours working on Wikivoyage; if anything, taking long vacations to travel around is encouraged!

Ending administrator privileges
Unused high-privilege user accounts are a security risk. For this reason, administrators who don't use their user accounts for two years will be notified and their privileges will be revoked. Administrators who know they don't have the time or interest to continue as admins should request to have their privileges revoked voluntarily.

The following sample message can be used to notify an admin of a pending permission removal due to inactivity:

Administrators who abuse their privileges can have those privileges revoked via nomination. In an emergency, a steward can remove an administrator pending further local discussion. Inactive admins may have their privileges restored if they become active again, but admins who have had their privileges removed for other reasons must go through the nomination process again to regain those privileges.

Current administrators
Wikivoyage has administrators. A full list of those that currently have administrator status on this project is at Special:Listadmins.

The following administrators have added their names here to indicate that they are available to answer any questions you may have. The best way to reach them is to leave a message on their talk page:
 * Peter (Southwood) (talk) — particularly about scuba diving articles.
 * ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) — about general policy - my talk page is open to all users.
 * LPfi (talk) — particularly technical questions.
 * SHB2000 (talk) — general and technical questions along with cooperating with the wider Wikimedia movement.

If they are not able to help you as quickly as you would like, you may want to raise the issue at the pub.

Non-regular administrators
This wiki allows Global sysops to perform uncontroversial admin actions; hence, all global sysops have admin rights here.

 * Current global sysops can be found at Special:GlobalUsers/global-sysop.
 * The policy on global sysops is the same as on the English Wikibooks.

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