On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM, ThomasB <[email protected]> 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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