Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

2013-08-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Bear in mind that OSM is a community such as we are, with its own habits and ideas. The idea of OSM is to have everything in one databse which structure is very open. You can actually put there almost everything which can be connected with the points, lines or areas and exist on our mother Earth.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] No, it isn't. (Was: is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?)

2013-08-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
Next time please don't change the email subject when replying to a thread unless you're changing the topic. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Mathias Schindler

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

2013-08-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 25.08.2013 11:58, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Bear in mind that OSM is a community such as we are, with its own habits and ideas. The idea of OSM is to have everything in one databse which structure is very open. You can actually put there almost everything which can be connected with the points,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

2013-08-25 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Bear in mind that OSM is a community such as we are, with its own habits and ideas. As I happen to be one of the more active ones in Hungary. :-) The idea of OSM is to have everything in one databse Nope. You will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile image upload

2013-08-25 Thread Steven Walling
On Sunday, August 25, 2013, James Heilman wrote: Mobile image upload is a huge plus thus thanks to all who made it happen. It is allowing those who might not otherwise have be able to get involved to do so. Just saw this image come in through the mobile site

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?

2013-08-25 Thread Kevin Gorman
It's fine (and necessary) to hold ourselves to our own ethical standards, but if we start trying to avoid activity that might be perceived as illegal in any country, we would run in to a lot of problems awfully fast. Trying to avoid activity that might be perceived as illegal somewhere in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

2013-08-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 August 2013 21:45, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: this is one point where WMF _may_ be able to help, We already have Special:Nearby https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby It shouldn't be a great leap to make (the back end of) that page emit a KML file (it's a list of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile image upload

2013-08-25 Thread Kevin Wayne Williams
It does, however, get its share of exactly what one would expect: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lil_brownie_2013-08-19_19-33.jpg KWW Op 2013/08/25 17:08, Sue Gardner schreef: Wow, that *is* great. Thank you for showing us, James :-) On Aug 25, 2013 5:14 AM, James Heilman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile image upload

2013-08-25 Thread Craig Franklin
If we make it easier for people to contribute, we're also making it easier for people to contribute stuff we don't want. The tradeoff is definitely worth it though. Cheers, Craig On 26/08/2013 10:56 AM, Kevin Wayne Williams kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote: It does, however, get its share of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal - Training for Wikimedia movement boards

2013-08-25 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: All the options of external training I'm aware of are cheaper than international workshops (I don't know about Boardsource and specially-hired consultants). you mean locally organized training? Perhaps,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 33 -- 21 August 2013

2013-08-25 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
From the editor: Call for contributors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-21/From_the_editor WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-21/WikiProject_report News and notes: Wikipedia's