[OHM] Wikimaps reporting

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Tue Jul 9 07:13:51 UTC 2013


Mikel Maron wrote:
> Just seeing this. If you aren't interested in any aspect of projects talked
> about here, that's fine, but no reason to give this kind of stop energy. But
> many of us are interested in collaborations, and welcome the thinking and ideas.
> It's all about the Commons.

My objections are not directed to the "don't" but rather to the manor in which 
contributions to wikipedia then get stripped as "not in line with our 
objectives". If this attitude has changed in recent years then wikipedia need to 
reduce the appearance of some of the warnings that appear on what is essentially 
important content.

Contributors who put effort into content need to feel that their work is valued, 
and will not simply be deleted. This does of cause need to be tempered with the 
blocking of blatant vandalism but 'advertising activity' should not be limited 
because someone makes a judgement call that an articles target "does not have 
enough interest to be valid!" ... We would not block the appearance of material 
on the mapping simply because it's "not got enough supporting evidence", and on 
historic mapping this may be more important so that alternate material may need 
to be supported and disputes documented rather than simply deleted?

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