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User Guide: Philosophy
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| Getting started |
| Guidelines |
| Philosophy |
| Advice for new users |
| Editing places (tags) |
| Introduction Message |
| Adding place |
| Places and place tags |
| Languages |
| Polygons (outlines) |
| Photos |
| Addresses |
| Categories |
| Parent & Child tags |
| Comments |
| Deleting places |
| Deletion criteria |
| Linear features (Transportation) |
| Roads edit |
| Railroads edit |
| Ferry edit |
| Rivers edit |
| Other UI features |
| The main screen |
| Wikimapia's URL |
| Map types |
| My account (profile) |
| Geotools |
| Searching |
| User Script |
| Community |
| Forum |
| Finding help |
| Experience points |
| User account |
| User levels |
| Other users |
| Voting |
| Vandalism |
| Banning users |
| Miscellaneous |
| Miscellaneous |
| Technical issues |
| Satellite images |
| To do |
Contents |
Mission statement
The Wikimapia motto is Let’s describe the whole world!
WikiMapia is a provider of geographic information in the form of an editable interactive two-dimensional map of the Earth where places are created, outlined and then annotated with wiki pages and other integrated features. The goal of Wikimapia is to create and maintain a free, complete, multilingual, up-to-date map of the Earth's surface. Wikimapia is about geography: notable places, geographic features and buildings of general interest. Wikimapia is intended to be:
- The sum total of local-based knowledge that any registered user can edit and that is freely available to the world.
- A community of contributors adding new, appropriate information to the map.
There are other web applications and web sites that also show you the world such as Google Earth, Panoramio and others but Wikimapia community aims to be a superior integration of features and multilingual descriptions. The Wikimapia place descriptions and outlines provide a high-quality and fun methodology of cartographic generalization with deeply penetrating content and text provided in the spirit of journalistic objectivity, but rather than a day-to-day basis, more on an year-to-year basis. Wikimapia's information is provided without promotional or commercial messages about that place or building or other enterprises that are useful and without bias. The contributor of content to Wikipedia gets to participate to our project wiki-quick and can strive to provide content worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in order to improve everyone's lives.
Wikimapia is about the people of Earth. Wikimapia intends to contain information about every place on the surface of planet Earth without borders and without prejudice. In 2005 A. D., the mega trend toward greater urbanization reached the 50% mark. That is, more than 50% of all people on Earth now live in an urban setting. Accordingly, the vast majority of places at Wikimapia are structures of the urban landscape and Wikimapia is sensitive towards how people feel about the depth and quality of the Wikimapia content. Wikimapia strives to provide the level of content previously only availble to professionals such as urban planners and those who study people flow, enabling everyone to partificapte in their local municipalities in a well-informed manner as we plan our future together. Be glorious, Wikimapia; we are proud of you!
What WikiMapia is not about
Wikimapia is not about:
- Politics
- Religion
- Advertising
- Pushing your own viewpoint
- General history (although many places are interesting because of their history)
Wikimapia place descriptions are not for a lengthy discussion about a place. Wikimapia describes many places of business and other such enterprises, but its descriptions of them do not promote those businesses beyond providing a link to their web site or other appropriate URLs or information sources. Wikimapia has a comments feature and appropriate comments are tolerated, but the community requires civility, respect and tolerance of other people's beliefs.
The Forum
The rules that apply to the Wikimapia place descriptions and comments also apply to the Wikimapia forum. The forum is an important part of the Wikimapia community and it adheres to the Wikimapia spirit in civility and appropriate subjects of discussions.
