Hello everyone,
I'm the director of
mySociety.org, the non-profit group that built
Placeopedia as a 'BackOtheEnvelope' project to distinguish it from the
bigger, more time consuming social sites we run like
PledgeBank.com.
I've joined the list because there are some pretty important things we
need to explain about Placeopedia:
1) We built Placeopedia for four reasons.
i - So that people could browse Wikipedia places by map
ii - So that Wikipedia could have a nice free , rich datafeed of
long/lat info to integrate on it's own terms, in it's own timescale.
iii - So that the world had a free geo-annotation system with an
interface that didn't suck, for use on other projects, like
www.YourHistoryHistoryHere.com.
iv - In case any of the nice Wikipedians were interested in helping
out with our other projects.
2) We did *not* build Placeopedia with the idea that:
i - Anyone would put Placeopedia links straight onto Wikipedia pages
ii - We would write our own script and add long/lat data to Wikipedia
in an automated fashion.
So when you discuss how Placeopedia fits in, that's our perspective.
thanks,
Tom
On 10/17/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
Placeopedia is an online application which integrates
Google Maps
images and Wikipedia encyclopedia articles.See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeopedia>
and<http://www.placeopedia.com/>m/>.
The Board are currently working on a logo licensing contract which
would permit such sites to use the Wikipedia logo.
A new mailing list for Placeopedia has recently been created at
<http://www.mysociety.org/mailman/listinfo/mysociety-maps> and they
would welcome input from Wikipedians on various aspects of the site.
For example, some issues already raised are whether links to
Placeopedia should be added automatically to all Wikipedia articles
that have a corresponding entry in Placeopedia. There is already a
template for this on the English Wikipedia
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Placeopedia>) but so far any
links have only been added manually.
Another issue is whether users of Placepedia should be able to add
categories to Wikipedia directly from Placeopedia.
If you have an interest in maps, please join the mailing list to help
answer these Wikipedia-related questions.
<http://www.mysociety.org/mailman/listinfo/mysociety-maps>
Angela.
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