Hi Lester, You could take a look at includipedia, which is basically a fork of the wikipedia to become an inclusive version of the wikipedia.
Shaun On 18 Mar 2009, at 08:53, Lester Caine wrote: > While the effort being put into links WITH wikipedia are to be > applauded, many of us are no longer contributing to wikipedia > because of > their propensity to kill of material that is not 'noteworthy'! > > 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. > > The bottom line in my mind is that if we applied the same heavy handed > rubber to OSM that is applied in wikipedia then many people whould > have > walked from here. > > All I am probably asking at this point is that links FROM OSM to an > article should bear some what when an 'editor' gets it into his head > that the article should be chopped. But that can only be ensured by > pressure inside wikipedia, and some flag that osm IS linking to it? > > In the meantime, the bulk of the links WE need to create at this time > are to secondary place information, and there are lots of > alternative - > more open - places that we can link to. > > https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html > Freely usable up to date facts ... > http://www.geonames.org/ - Only really useful as a cross reference? > OSM search usually gets the location right, but a link back to > source search would be useful? > http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/ - ( with advertising :( ) > http://wikitravel.org - Growing library of local information > http://www.viovio.com/travel/ - Growing photo gallery > ( This site would benefit from replacing MapQuest by OSM ;) ) > http://www.flickr.com/places/ Pictures via place name - roughly > > Of cause what would be nice would be a common standard for location > names, so we can just create new links automatically. I keep returning > to a nice hierarchic front end for osm, which nowadays is probably > just > a different view on the place search? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
