[Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <
> jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You have this directory already!
>> Just extract all the deleted articles that are not notible.
>> you will have all the small business that got deleted.
>>
>> In fact that is the biggest pain that people face, they get deleted.
>> We need some way to keep pages from being deleted, but moved.
>>
>
> I think first there needs to be a place to move them to.  OSM has come a
> long way since I first proposed Wikiteer, which was meant to be a
> combination of items of local interest which were deleted as non-notable
> plus the GIS support structure to map them.  Nowadays I'm comfortable
> letting OSM manage the GIS/mapping aspect and sticking to just the
> description pages (phone numbers, addresses, websites, operating hours,
> maybe even some topic specific info like menus or admission prices or show
> schedules).

OSM supports address and websites.
It could store all the data in fact, it is free form.
you could have key=price-food-hambuger val=1$ if you want.

Basically you can store all the data that google local does in osm.

But people want to have a wikipage for themselves. Small business etc.

mike