I am aware of the commons botload problem ... I did my share as well. However we know that Wikipedia has made some very big mistakes. Its still the best encyclopedia in the world and a marvellous example of man's good will triumphing over apathy and cynicism. Lets not make the mistake of blaming Tim Berners Lee for online-pornography and international terrorism whilst forgetting that some other good things come from his invention as well..... or in this case Geograph
Just because we have had a less than perfect experience with botloading then lets not foget that as far as I know the first country in the world to offer a free license picture of every square km was the UK. Wiki loves monmuments has had difficulty estblishing itself here. One reason is that we had (in part) done it. I would estimate that there are thousands upon thousands of well placed images in wikipedia articles because of the foresight of Geograph. Or put it another way?? Who should we give the UKWikimedian of the year awards to? cheers Roger On 14 April 2012 09:11, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>wrote: > > > On 13 April 2012 22:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>wrote: > > <snip> > > >> I don't anticipate that this suggestion to offer a manual commons upload >> for the Geograph users and the high def images they now load would be as >> contentious as it would be to resume the bot based import. >> >> The kind of debate that has been opened up here is, in Wikipedia terms, > one of the oldest (the "Rambot" issue of almost a decade ago). I wouldn't > say that the Commons community will necessarily come to the same > conclusions as (English) Wikipedia did, namely that large-scale additions > of free content should not be resisted simply on the grounds that quantity > is in tension with quality. But the precedent agrees with my views as an > end-user, which is that more images implies broader coverage implies I'm > more likely to find there is some image I could use to illustrate an > article when I go to look for one. (I gave an example in another thread > recently, i.e. [[Lewis Cubitt]]). > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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