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2022 Taiwan Street-view Expedition Series: Recaps on the 2nd Street-view Expedition

My apologies to those who got offended by the inappropriate hellish gag.

Anyway let's not bogged down with... enough!
[OSMOpinion] OpenStreetMap must not be the petri dish of political-driven nonsense

Once again, I would rather not argue with any irrational expressions, I wrote this opinion to call for action on consisted vandalism. I need nobody to point fingers at me like the Foreign Ministry, “I have to ask, whether you understand China? Have you been to China?” … “You have no right to speak on this. The Chinese people have the right to speak.” …” China welcomes all well-meaning suggestions, but we reject all groundless accusations.”, I’ve been living in China for years, thank-you.

First thing first, I’m not the one cherry-picking, the Chinese mappers that only does vandalise never needs to be handpicked, with that being said, there are also dozens of unspoken Chinese mappers who share the same values and created a variety of datasets, my uttermost respect to them for their hard work.

too young, too simple, sometimes naïve.

– wisdom spot on by the elder1

Secondly, one does not simply do instructions on how things work in Wikipedia, I never bite newcomers if they did things unintentionally. I used to assume good faith in everyone (except spammers) until the integrity of Chinese Wikipedia was already compromised by WMC, you just don’t speak the same language as political fanatics. Your motherland was too superior for a person like me to understand, I would like no more debate on such as I rather finding hard times to determine whether your speeches asserting the specific set of perspectives were politically motivated or not, thank-you.

Finally, I “acknowledged” the position of the de jure status of the G3 Bejing-Taipei Expressway and G319 Kaohsiung-Chengdu National Highway by China, although I might never have any positive feelings. However, any unsolicited edits on Taiwan Strait Tunnels would be perceived as destructive and meaningless to the OSM, those were merely drafts from a piece of paper without mutual discussion or understanding. No comments apart from “deeply concerned” on Xinjiang because nobody has the full pictures except the lingdao (leaderships) despite I watched a lot of “biased” reports on such issues. And please, try not to bring other vandalising parties in, that won’t necessarily help, that just not justifying any vandalising. If there are only individual cases on similar mappings, everybody can revert untroubled and go for a pint or a sip or a cuppa after, and the fact is, no, there’s no such thing as far as I observed. Never envisaged talking politics in OSM, but the Politics, always do the knock-knock.

“Things that happened in China remains in China, we the Chinese have the rights to talk about, not somebody sits in thousands of kilometres anyway”, that might sound sensible to you, but no, it is not. Who is being biased, I beg to differ.

assanges


1: Toad worship (incl. elder) is a Chinese Internet meme spoofing former leader Jiang Zemin, the quote precisely reflects my thoughts on how all other local communities view the CN communities.

[OSMOpinion] OpenStreetMap must not be the petri dish of political-driven nonsense

My sincere salute to you Andy, your tireless efforts made a huge difference, also other DWG members.

The TW community active members are always in discussion on such issues since edits from hostile CN mappers never ends. I’ve also aware of other territorial disputes you’ve mentioned but seems that etiquettes or manner means nothing upon PATRIOTISM.

NM$L (btw a great username, just good as ‘wnkr’ or ‘pr**k’) did assemble some templates for CN mappers in his/her user page, which I thought were despicable to call irrational puppets and will cause severe damage to OSM if more and more follow their footsteps.

P.S.: I totally agree with you that I rather would like OSM to keep its current shape, i.e. bijou governance since all forms of authority will rot in all sorts of means.

Cheers, assanges

Map and language text identification error

I totally agree with you that we should be nice to newcomers, that chap obviously does not come in peace, being nice and polite should not be confused with neglect nor frail. Cheers.

Map and language text identification error

With all due respect, I don’t think thats the case. Many of you mappers may think that Supaplex might be a little bit too harsh, yes, only if the user is a newbie. However this specific user has no known edits but only two diaries which were extremely provocative, IMHO a firm language would be great reminder to he/she/xe OSM is not a place asking alignment on specific political views nor affiliations. Cheers.

NEED HELP: Create an article in wikipedia

An international collaboration same as the OSM, cheers! ( ᐛ )٩و

NEED HELP: Create an article in wikipedia

Done, see the page history. Not sure if it follows the standard procedure. ROFL (Note: I’m a ZHWP guru, but not in ENWP) ( ᐛ )٩و( ᐛ )٩و( ᐛ )٩و( ᐛ )٩و( ᐛ )٩و