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Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads (gizmodo.com) (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No. There is a notability requirement among others: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

And why would roads not be noteworthy? Wikipedia explicitly celebrated the millionth article about a random small Scottish railway station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_release_on_English_Wikipedia_hitting_milestone_1_million_articles

I happen to know a thing or two about Wikipedia's history, including remembering when naysayers were proclaiming that a random Scottish railway station wasn't noteworthy but it turned out that traffic infrastructure used by countless of people each year is actually noteworthy even if it isn't in the news all the time.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I don't know I don't edit wikipedia regularly, I only fix small things if find something wrong or outdated. I just replied that your definition of wikipedia is not the same as wikipedians think, it wasn't specifically about this situation. I haven't said I agree with this definition neither.

I just read more about this project and notability wasn't their problem but citation and referencing third party sources and maps correctly: