[OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevs, Serbia ?

[Mike Dupont]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM, ThomasB <toba0211 at yahoo.de> wrote:

> The example of Kosovo in the OSM Wiki that you are quoting here has been
> added your friend Liz, who is in favour of your view.
>

I am sorry, it was added by mikel before I even started to work on the
project.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Disputes&action=historysubmit&diff=64112&oldid=64101

In the case where there are multiple local names, then if the government
with effective and sustained control of the area has an official source of
names or an
official stance on a naming dispute, then that name is default. For
instance, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry-Londonderry_name_disputeDerry-Londonderry]When
there is no clear sustained control of an area, such
as [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Kosovo Kosovo],
special consideration will be needed on a case by case basis.


Liz added this :

 (Kosovo now has independent government, recognised by many other
countries, so this is now less relevant.)

So, really this is going to come down to the question if you want to offend
and possibly lose the dedicate team we have built up in kosovo
and lose any value for visitors to kosovo to even use the map.

I can tell you that in the case of english wikipedia, the serbs have won a
bunch of disputes over the naming of things, for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90eravica or the listing of all the
mountains of kosovo as being in serbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_Serbia. The result is
that people in kosovo cannot hardly be motivated to contribute to the
wikipedia and that might be the fate of osm in the future.  I have also
given up my efforts to even bother with improving wikipedia after being
wikihounded and harrased by a user who was left to do that.

please can we stop the damage now and get things back to the previous
status quo that was working?

mike

-- 
James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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