[OSM-talk] Interwiki links from Wikipedia etc.

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Tue Jan 1 10:27:06 GMT 2008


Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    someone on the talk-de list mentioned that as of Dec 29, all
> Wikipedia projects (Wikipedia in all languages, Wikimedia Commons
> etc.) have an "Interwiki" link type "Openstreetmap:..." linking
> directly to the OSM wiki.
> 
> This means you can link to OSM wiki articles from Wikipedia like this:
> 
> [[Openstreetmap:Map Features]]
> 
> or
> 
> [[Openstreetmap:User:Frederik Ramm]]

Pity they do not allow us to actually add pages to use them :(
They can piggyback every other information source, but they only allow their 
own blinkered view of the world!

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