Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/3/18 Russ Nelson <[email protected]>: >> On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote: >> >>> 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. >> This is a serious enough issue that it should be escalated to the >> OSMF. They should make an arrangement with Wikipedia saying: that an >> article linked from OSM to Wikipedia is by definition noteworthy, and >> that that justification cannot be used to delete an article from >> Wikipedia. There might be other reasons: for example that the >> locations linked between OSM and Wikipedia are in fact not related, or >> the *location* is not worth including in OSM. >> >> If we're going to cooperate with Wikipedia, then they need to >> cooperate with us by not allowing any dangling links. > > There are several reasons why this isn't possible, but the biggest one > is the following: Wikipedia isn't controlled by the Wikimedia > Foundation but by the community. With whom do you like to make an > arrangement? It's pretty hard to make an arrangement with a community > consisting out of constantly changing people.
That is probably the main reason who I would prefer to find an alternative 'location' to direct links to. And some useful suggestions have already been made. While I CAN appreciate the idea of our own wiki. That would require a lot more hardware. Viovio has several terabytes of images already, and I suspect wikitravel.org can probably top that. So sharing the load would sound a lot more sensible? -- 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
