[OSM-talk] The long tail

[David Groom]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Johansson" <erjohan at gmail.com>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] The long tail


> Think about it you can help people answer the ultimate question, who
> created this world. So I say for the well being of our children, let
> them know who did what and when.
>
>
> On 7/6/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> To me it looks like instead of distributing all the source code to
>> openstreetmap like we do, people are insisting I produce the database
>> behind subversion will all the changes for the past two years.
>
> But I can easily produce such a dump with; svn -r 1 , svn -r 2; ....;
> svn -r 1012
>
> Wikipedia does full dumps, my children and hopefully their children
> will be able to see how much time their grandfather spent on
> Wikipedia. I don't see a big privacy policy on wikipedia that says
> "Hey everyone can see what you edit", it's pretty clear that you are
> responsible for your actions.

It does, in the privavcy policy you refer to in your PS.
>From  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
The second paragrpagh under the summary states "If you contribute to the 
Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you 
write something, assume that it will be retained forever."

David

>
>
>> Once you accept that privacy is important
>
> Privacy is one thing secrecy is something completely different.
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> /Erik
>
> PS. there is a privacy policy on wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Privacy_policy
>
> PPS yey for more frequent dumps.
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