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Mapping Wikipedia Articles with PlaceOpedia
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SearchEngineWatch have an article about PlaceOpedia and mapping places in Wikipedia. From the article: "One of the downsides to Wikipedia, at least at this stage, is that it's almost entirely text. There are relatively few images, and maps showing locations of geographic entries tend to be bare-bones, if they exist at all. Enter Placeopedia, a "mashup" that pinpoints geographic Wikipedia entries on Google maps."
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geognerd writes "I was looking at and making some minor edits to a few GIS-related topics on Wikipedia. Something in the edit history of those pages caught my eye. A user called "Redlands" has made 37 contributions to GIS articles since Sep 21 of this year. These articles range in subject from Jack Dangermond to ArcGIS Server. Many of the contributions include links to ESRI's website or projects they are affiliated with, like the National Geographic MapMachine.
"Redlands" is also the creator of the Wikipedia article for GIS Day and has made all of the edits thus far. The same holds true for the article on ArcWeb Services, ArcGIS Server, and ArcExplorer.
This is a curiosity. I wonder if "Redlands" is an ESRI insider, an employee of their marketing department, someone at the University of Redlands, or someone who just likes the name Redlands. Ethical questions could be raised if these articles were written by ESRI. For example, the edit by "Redlands" to the Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Database articles contributed little more than a link to the ESRI Press website."
"Redlands" is also the creator of the Wikipedia article for GIS Day and has made all of the edits thus far. The same holds true for the article on ArcWeb Services, ArcGIS Server, and ArcExplorer.
This is a curiosity. I wonder if "Redlands" is an ESRI insider, an employee of their marketing department, someone at the University of Redlands, or someone who just likes the name Redlands. Ethical questions could be raised if these articles were written by ESRI. For example, the edit by "Redlands" to the Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Database articles contributed little more than a link to the ESRI Press website."
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