[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/12, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> it is hard to collect all this information for osm, so why not have
>> people add it to wikpedia first?
>
> Wouldn't it be more efficient to direct people to OSM and wikitravel
> in the first place, rather than use Wikipedia as a staging ground? I
> know people assume that Wikipedia is the place for everything, but if
> people are going to get out of that mindset, you need to tell them
> they were in the wrong place, and not just move stuff for them.
>
> Carcharoth
>

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"?