[OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

[Shaun McDonald]

Hi Lester,

You could take a look at includipedia, which is basically a fork of  
the wikipedia to become an inclusive version of the wikipedia.

Shaun

On 18 Mar 2009, at 08:53, Lester Caine wrote:

> While the effort being put into links WITH wikipedia are to be
> applauded, many of us are no longer contributing to wikipedia  
> because of
> their propensity to kill of material that is not 'noteworthy'!
>
> On a number of occasions in the past I have linked to articles only
> later to find the 'censors' message at the end of a link :( and I know
> we have had this discussion in the past where other OSM contributors
> have found the same problem.
>
> The bottom line in my mind is that if we applied the same heavy handed
> rubber to OSM that is applied in wikipedia then many people whould  
> have
> walked from here.
>
> All I am probably asking at this point is that links FROM OSM to an
> article should bear some what when an 'editor' gets it into his head
> that the article should be chopped. But that can only be ensured by
> pressure inside wikipedia, and some flag that osm IS linking to it?
>
> In the meantime, the bulk of the links WE need to create at this time
> are to secondary place information, and there are lots of  
> alternative -
> more open - places that we can link to.
>
> https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
>      Freely usable up to date facts ...
> http://www.geonames.org/ - Only really useful as a cross reference?
>      OSM search usually gets the location right, but a link back to
>      source search would be useful?
> http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/ - ( with advertising :( )
> http://wikitravel.org    - Growing library of local information
> http://www.viovio.com/travel/ - Growing photo gallery
>      ( This site would benefit from replacing MapQuest by OSM ;) )
> http://www.flickr.com/places/ Pictures via place name - roughly
>
> Of cause what would be nice would be a common standard for location
> names, so we can just create new links automatically. I keep returning
> to a nice hierarchic front end for osm, which nowadays is probably  
> just
> a different view on the place search?
>
> -- 
> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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