Wikipedia Sucks!

An article recently posted to the New York Times discusses a new interactive map that was created, in part, using data available in Wikidata and open streetmap.

The article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/sunday/thar-be-witches-and-us.html

The link to the interactive map is here: http://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/

On one hand I Personally think this is a pretty cool use of the available data and uses the data to show an interesting timeline.

However, I also see this as a potential problem in disguise. This map was created using data about people who are long dead so there's no risk of libel or harm to living people. If someone were to create this using, say, porn actress locations (since this topic was mentioned in the news recently also); what if it was done showing locations of elementary school locations? There are a lot of potential uses of this type of interactive mapping that could be done by someone for less than honorable reasons and this sort of thing helps show how it can be done.

OK, putting aside how the holy fuck you map the location of porn actresses, I think I have heard of a thing that plots the location of elementary schools........it's called a fucking map. You can even get them in the interwebs now.

You useless --------.

And again the weak minded Crow refuses to comment on the actual topic but instead chooses to attack me. When will the mods ever learn that Crowsnest is the source of 100% of this sites problems and indef ban his ass just like Wikipedia did. As lousy as the Wikipedia culture is, every once in a while, they get an action right as they did by banning Crow.

Kumioko wrote:And again the weak minded Crow refuses to comment on the actual topic but instead chooses to attack me. When will the mods ever learn that Crowsnest is the source of 100% of this sites problems and indef ban his ass just like Wikipedia did. As lousy as the Wikipedia culture is, every once in a while, they get an action right as they did by banning Crow.

Weak is pretending like you didn't just forget elementary schools can be located pretty easily, even when you were trying desperately hard to say something remotely insightful...... I note you don't want to talk about that aspect of the topic now. No matter.

Face it, you're just too dumb. You're so dumb, you even believe I am banned on Wikipedia! The truth is, you heard someone say it, you want it to be true, so you're repeating it as if it is, as if someone could actually verify it. Like a gullible fucking moron. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. I maintain a policy of neither confirming or denying these sort of rumours, for precisely times like this, because it allows me to do this.....

The difference between me and you is, I can say with one hundred percent certainty that you are banned from Wikipedia. And all their other sites. And all phsyical locations and events too. I can also say, without being accused of any kind of falsehood at all, that there is a very real possibility that your ban was placed because you are the sort to guy who takes a great interest in the location of elementary schools.

See Kumi. If you were smart, you'd have seen that coming a mile off. But you're dumb. Real, fucking, dumb.