On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 6/25/12, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What's wrong with "Hi, thanks for your stuff. It didn't belong here, >> so we put it there for you" rather than "Hi, you put stuff here that >> didn't belong here. Bad user. Find an admin that will email your stuff >> for you through a murky procedure, so you can put it there yourself"? > > I should have been clearer that if people want to spend their time > doing that, fine. But there are other things on Wikipedia that need > doing more urgently. Trans-wikiiing or moving stuff around is > laudable, but is a sideshow to the core aim of producing and improving > the quality of the online encyclopedia (as opposed to the online > travel guide or hotel guide or whatever). The problem is that this > sort of exhortation tends to fail when a volunteer workforce is > involved. And I am aware that it is possible for different online > freely licensed sites to work together in synergy, exchanging material > as needed, but it still feels like a distraction from the core > activities. > > Carcharoth >
Maybe I'm misreading the thread, but I think that Mike was proposing to use the wiki for deleted articles he set up to use this information to move it over to OSM. I was slightly amazed that this seemed to be received as a bad idea in Carcharoths post. I am not suggesting that any administrator or editor *should* do this, but it should be applauded, ot at least shouldn't be discouraged if an editor does do that. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
