On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 6/25/12, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra(a)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.