On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6/25/12, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@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.