[OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

[Tim 'avatar' Bartel]

Hi,

2009/3/18 Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com>:
> On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
>
>> 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.

There are several reasons why this isn't possible, but the biggest one
is the following: Wikipedia isn't controlled by the Wikimedia
Foundation but by the community. With whom do you like to make an
arrangement? It's pretty hard to make an arrangement with a community
consisting out of constantly changing people.

Bye, Tim.

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