[OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

[Dermot McNally]

On 13 June 2011 14:41, TimSC <mappinglists at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:

> So I ask any interested parties and Richard: please respond with a
> definition of what constitutes "news" and/or some reasoning that it is "one
> person's hobbyhorse", otherwise I will revert you back. Also if you want to
> raise awareness of the poll, I would appreciate some support here! ;)

It was put very succinctly by somebody earlier - paraphrasing, you
know something is news if it's important enough that somebody other
than the person who did it thinks it's news. In a similar vein,
Wikipedia takes a dim view of people writing an article about
themselves.

We all have diary pages to publicise our OSM deeds that we think
people care about. If they actually do, somebody else will post it as
news.

Dermot

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