On Aug 31, 2014 5:14 PM, "Simon Poole" <si...@osmfoundation.org> wrote: > Nipping this in the bud: the OSMF and WMF are working together on > exactly 0 (in words: zero) projects. > > Note: this is simply a statement of fact and not an opinion on if the > OSMF should or should not collaborate more (less not being possible) > with the WMF.
This is true. But there are certainly plenty of instances where OSM and Wikimedia organizations and groups (not OSMF and WMF) have collaborated together. There's a joint project between Wikimedia Indonesia and HOT Indonesia to map and create Wikipedia articles in Kalimantan. Wikimedia Italia organized OSMit 2013, the annual OSM conference for the Italian OSM community. Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) is collaborating with the OpenHistoricalMap community. Wikimedia Deutschland has sponsored the multilingual OSM map project developed by Jochen Topf. In addition, WMF is certainly using OSM extensively. In fact, WMF currently has a job opening for a map engineer and one of the requirements is OSM experience. And OSM is inspired by Wikipedia and uses Wikimedia resources such as MediaWiki for the OSM Wiki. And we link to Wikipedia and use photos from Wikimedia Commons as well.
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