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Oooooooh.
It just hit me.
Wikipedia was born in the US. That's why there is the Wikimedia Foundation which controls the project, keeps everything inside its infrastructure, and is the single point of contact for the project.
OpenStreetMap was born in Europe. By the words of Juri, our DNA is different: we provide the data and do the absolute minimum, allowing hundreds of companies flourish on our data. E.g. there are no official routers or search engines.
#openstreetMap #wikipedia #opendata
Jiří Eischmann (@sesivany@vivaldi.net)
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in.Jiří Eischmann (Vivaldi Social)
craignicol
in reply to Ilya Zverev • • •I feel like the European version of Wikipedia would be mirrored across universities who'd be fact checking each other.
I do also feel that it would be much much harder to join for universities in Africa or India.
Ilya Zverev
in reply to craignicol • • •@craignicol Haha yeah, no, I don't think european wikipedia would even have been possible :)
It's mostly about OSM governance, the thing very few people understand, why they (we) refuse to grow.
craignicol
in reply to Ilya Zverev • • •the interesting one here is world wide web which started in academia in Europe, but then the governance organisation was founded in USA with USA public funds.
Europe could have owned that.