[OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

You mentioned cleaning up the Wiki and the Help Q&A site.

What about mailing list archives? Will the OSMF then start deleting emails
if they contain Google Maps links?


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>
> Because of the time constraints the removal of the google links is quite
> rough, however most (as in all except a handful)  of the links were either
> old, outdated, or/and unused, as for example essentially all links to old
> errors in Google maps based on TeleAtlas data, which should have been
> deleted years ago. Naturally you can add back sanitized links, however I
> would in general question why we would want to use google data in our own
> documentation in the first place (that is naturally a different discussion).
>
> As for the rest Jeff Meyer has summarized it nicely.
>
> Simon
>
> Am 01.02.2013 18:57, schrieb Ilya Zverev:
>
> > Hi. Regardless of that trademark business, I've checked Simon's edits
> and they mostly consist of removing links to google maps, which contain
> empty "geocode" parameter and them (and many other redundant parameters
> that editors didn't bother to omit). Some of the edits are quite funny, for
> example,
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Essex_Way&diff=prev&oldid=861689(removed a link to display kml with google maps).
> >
> > I cannot understand why links to google maps have become prohibited in
> our wiki, but there are probably one or two meaningful edits and lots of
> what can be called vandalism. For example, cleaning "Copyright Easter Eggs"
> pages from links to mentioned easter eggs.
> >
> > So, I vote for 1) reverting all those edits; 2) explaining in detail
> what is prohibited (what words, which links etc.) and what is not; 3)
> editing wiki more thoroughly, so every edit could be understood.
> >
> >
> > IZ
> >
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