Grendelll

Travel writer

Swept in from the pub

I'm brand new to wikivoyages but have been a travel writer for almost twenty years, publishing all over the world and living in 150+ countries with over a hundred published articles and thousands of photos. I can post all the stories on wikivoyages with photos but don't know exactly what you need. I've written stories on the usual countries but also on remote and seldom visited countries including Turkmenistan, North Korea, Sudan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, remote China and Tibet, Mali, Ethiopia and most every country in Africa, Asia and South America. Here's my journal pages: http://www.mytripjournal.com/RichWorld and here's a description of me as a writer by one of my editors along with a listing of stories published by Gonomad: http://www.gonomad.com/corp/davidrich.html

Any suggestions and how do I post all this, assuming it's something wikivoyages could us? Thanks, David Rich ((((

An easy way to start is by adding photos. The photos are stored on Wikimedia commons here [1] And you will see an upload link to the left. Let us know if you run into problems and welcome. Travel Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:30, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Welcome, indeed. You should create an account; there is a link for that somewhere, but I don't see it because I am already logged in. This lets contributions be credited to the account rather than just an anonymous IP address. It will also create a user page for you, which would be a good place for the links above (but see dt for limits on promoting yourself here). Finally, it will create a user talk page where people can contact you.

There may be issues with copyright either if you want to control usage of some material or if an employer or publisher, rather than you, holds copyright on some. An introduction to our policies on that is at Wikivoyage:Copyleft. Pashley (talk) 18:46, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

I hold all the copyrights. Travel stories are sold with single use permissions. —The preceding comment was added by Grendelll (talk • contribs)

It sounds like our projects may be complementary, but unaligned. You can't upload material here unless you are willing to release them in line with our copyleft. A single use licence won't comply. Similarly, we can't make use of the material in your guides, unless it is released with a similar licence. --Inas (talk) 02:07, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Grendelll will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's the import of what s/he's saying. The point is, those who published her/his stories bought only single-use rights for them - not that Grendelll is expecting us to pay for rights to use whatever s/he contributes here. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:42, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I see! Nevertheless, probably worthwhile giving our Copyleft a read, and making sure s/he is comfortable with it. --Inas (talk) 05:56, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I was just going to give wikivoyage all the stories and have no interest in promoting myself; I don't wish to allow the photos to be copied but the text can be. I'll check your copyleft thingie! Regards, Grendelll

Welcome

Hello, Grendelll! 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 Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. If you are familiar with Wikipedia, take a look over some of the differences here. Pashley (talk) 17:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)