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Also http://engineer.openguides.org/

Years ago someone made a Quake map of Queen's College Oxford (can't find URL), and St. John's College is a Doom map too. I can't remember anyone being arrested for it, but then again I can't remember a school in England being shot up either.

Yeah, I remember that - the EasyCinema launched by Stelios the tycoon with the impossible surname. Here it's claimed that it closed down last year. But they were getting the big releases in good time before the end.

In the Easy tradition it was cheaper the earlier you booked, so an impulse decision to go to the cinema wouldn't have secured a cheap berth. And it was £1, making it about $1.96...

http://london.openguides.org

Yep, it's another wiki (though one with a shedload of metadata bolted on)

This is a simple idea, and a useful, community editable database of geographically linked information for London already exists in The Open Guide to London. And it's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which allows commercial usage. So all you'd need to do is implement some way of searching by OS co-ordinates (most nodes in the Guide have this information) which should be pretty trivial, and you're away.

Grandparent: The job of the editors is to post stories which generate hits to the site. Slashdot plays the self serving FUD game just as well as your favorite evil mega-corp.

Parent: Most insightful comment I've seen posted here all day. There's a damn good argument to be made that Slashdot is best served when the stories are inflammatory and riddled with falsehoods.

It's something that's always bugged me about slashdot, and I used to not post to stories out of some kind of vague principle. I figured that I was generating content (thus money -- albeit a small about) for them without getting anything in return and I didn't like it. I did however work on projects like Wiktionary, and smaller wikis like the open guide to London because no one was making any money off my labor in that case.

But, eventually I did start posting to slashdot when I started my own website. I figured the publicity that I could get from this site for my blog far, far out weighed the amount of money my comment on slashdot was worth. So it's a good deal for everyone, I make self-serving links to my own sites and get many regular readers from slashdot, and slashdot gets my own little contribution to their content pile and thus their coffers.

Still though, it does annoy me that it is in their best interest to have stories that end in either inflammatory or inaccurate comments.

yes they like the word Wiki alot

How about wikifactsaredecidedbydemocracy?

I like the idea of wiki, but I think there is an intrinsic problem in trying to have it create something like a textbook. A guide to London, fine, but I wouldn't trust the theory of evolution to be accurately represented in a biology book.


-Colin