The Strategic Planning wiki is a good place to discuss this idea and
how it changed and/or implemented:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals/Geonotice_improvements
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals/Geonotice_improvements
-Sage
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Sage Ross wr
> seem to be just a way to geotag users. I don't see such feed. Perhaps
> I'm missing something.
Yeah, the discussion on VP about the whole endeavor. Not much
resonance = no point in pursuing it. You need a large userbase (i.e.
spatial coverage) for this to make sense.
>>> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
>> The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a
>> bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
> Don't people sign up to work on stuff they feel like working on? I
>
Daniel Schwen wrote:
>> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
> The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a
> bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
> case so it makes perfect sense to have users post t
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote:
>> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
> The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a
> bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
> case so it makes p
> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a
bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and
have a bot
Daniel Schwen wrote:
> That is a great idea, which incidentely resembles my idea to geocode
> all commons users to facilitate photo requests. :-)
> The response back then was... ...underwhelming (but I'm getting used
> to that.. sob :-( )
>
> [1]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocod
That is a great idea, which incidentely resembles my idea to geocode
all commons users to facilitate photo requests. :-)
The response back then was... ...underwhelming (but I'm getting used
to that.. sob :-( )
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocode_Users?withJS=MediaWiki:Geocode_Us
One of the great frustrations of Wikinews for me is that it doesn't
have a system for identifying and pointing users toward opportunities
to get out into the offline world and do original reporting. A
fine-grained cross-project opt-in geonotice system could be a
solution.
Here's how I imagine it
