On 10/18/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
I would hate for an opportunity like this, of getting something really useful up and running really quickly, to be lost while we dither.
I don't see how it's going to be lost, is there another free encyclopedia that they'll partner with if we don't slather wikipedia with externals to them?
I suspect that, like myself, many people have a hard time getting excited about filling up wikipedia with more externals rather than enhancing the value of Wikipedia directly.
Geodata in articles about subjects which have a definite location belongs in Wikipedia, that much is clear. I don't think its at all clear that we need to undertake a large effort to integrate with a third party site which is providing a service we should ultimately provide ourselves.