[OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, 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.

This is a serious enough issue that it should be escalated to the  
OSMF.  They should make an arrangement with Wikipedia saying: that an  
article linked from OSM to Wikipedia is by definition noteworthy, and  
that that justification cannot be used to delete an article from  
Wikipedia.  There might be other reasons: for example that the  
locations linked between OSM and Wikipedia are in fact not related, or  
the *location* is not worth including in OSM.

If we're going to cooperate with Wikipedia, then they need to  
cooperate with us by not allowing any dangling links.

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