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

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[-] Woovie@lemmy.world 59 points 6 months ago

I hate how this was framed by the writer, really silly. just because you create a wiki dedicated to a particular topic doesn’t mean it’s “rogue”. That’s just the nature of it. Wikipedia is not a place to host everyone’s wiki.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

Wikipedia is not a place to host everyone’s wiki.

Wikipedia is a place to collect factual information. If those articles about streets and roads are factually correct and backed up with citations, they belong in Wikipedia.

[-] mannivu@livellosegreto.it 1 points 6 months ago

@woelkchen @Woovie as they said “The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado”, so it looks like they add informations that are not always backed with citations

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

as they said “The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado”, so it looks like they add informations that are not always backed with citations

I can't speak for US towns in particular but where I live such information is posted on websites all the time, be it the town's official newspaper or a local news website.

When English Wikipedia celebrated the millionth article, the topic was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station, "a side-platformed suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland." So, that type of information is fine.

[-] mannivu@livellosegreto.it 1 points 6 months ago

@woelkchen sure, but there are some infos that don't have enough notability to be on Wikipedia: for example if a road has a minor renovation that shouldn't be mentioned on Wikipedia, but it could be mentioned on this dedicated wiki

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