You mentioned cleaning up the Wiki and the Help Q&A site. What about mailing list archives? Will the OSMF then start deleting emails if they contain Google Maps links?
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > Because of the time constraints the removal of the google links is quite > rough, however most (as in all except a handful) of the links were either > old, outdated, or/and unused, as for example essentially all links to old > errors in Google maps based on TeleAtlas data, which should have been > deleted years ago. Naturally you can add back sanitized links, however I > would in general question why we would want to use google data in our own > documentation in the first place (that is naturally a different discussion). > > As for the rest Jeff Meyer has summarized it nicely. > > Simon > > Am 01.02.2013 18:57, schrieb Ilya Zverev: > > > Hi. Regardless of that trademark business, I've checked Simon's edits > and they mostly consist of removing links to google maps, which contain > empty "geocode" parameter and them (and many other redundant parameters > that editors didn't bother to omit). Some of the edits are quite funny, for > example, > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Essex_Way&diff=prev&oldid=861689(removed > a link to display kml with google maps). > > > > I cannot understand why links to google maps have become prohibited in > our wiki, but there are probably one or two meaningful edits and lots of > what can be called vandalism. For example, cleaning "Copyright Easter Eggs" > pages from links to mentioned easter eggs. > > > > So, I vote for 1) reverting all those edits; 2) explaining in detail > what is prohibited (what words, which links etc.) and what is not; 3) > editing wiki more thoroughly, so every edit could be understood. > > > > > > IZ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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