Rui,
I would suggest that you stop complaining about errors on wikipedia here
and if they bother you then just correct them yourself.
Wikipedia articles are open to *anyone* to edit, and if you don't feel
able or motivated to edit them you can leave comments on the complementary
talk page. As Alasdair has pointed out, putting your comments on the talk
page is as easy as sending an email to this list - why do you disagree?
You seem to be implying that people on this list have some kind of
ownership over the articles in question, and that they are responsible for
fixing errors/ommisions/bias. That just isn't true, since the articles
are essentially public property. As the person who spotted the
errors/ommisions/bias, you are responsible for fixing them. Of course,
it's a good use of a mailing list to check your facts, but that doesn't
seem to be what you want to do.
Best,
Tom.
PS Re: searching the archives, I believe this is a repeat of the last
conversation we had about wikipedia - you complain about wikipedia, people
suggest you fix it, you don't. Can we expect the same conversation in
another month or two?
> Dear Alasdair,
>
> I do not think that the authors of the space syntax wikipidea entries are
> anonymous (as you seem to imply)...
>
> Would you like me to run a query on this list for wikipidea? There are
> messages on the archives from a few months ago discussing it...
>
> Re Depthmap, I'm not going to argue about what it is SUPPOSED to do!!!
>
> All the best,
> Rui
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Alasdair Turner
>> Sent: 16 February 2006 15:41
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [SPACESYNTAX] Spatial network analysis
>>
>> Dear Rui,
>>
>> I have recently started calling what Depthmap does "spatial network
>> analysis" for the very reasons you state: it is does *more* than space
>> syntax -- it can perform graph analysis of river networks,
>> transportation networks and so on if you happen to load these into it
>> (albeit, with space syntax names for the measures...).
>>
>> I'm not sure if the Wikipedia authors picked up their take on "spatial
>> networks" from what I've said about Depthmap or not (there's some
>> familiar phrases in your links), but if they did, I think they've
>> mistakenly thought of it all as space syntax. However, as I've said
>> before, it actually looks like they're saying it because they just have
>> a different interpretation of what "spatial network" means that we do.
>>
>> It strikes me that one of us should volunteer to edit it, but I still
>> don't see why the person to start that process shouldn't be you!
>> Wikipedia articles have discussion fora of their own: it wouldn't take
>> you any longer to post your objections there than here.
>>
>> Alasdair
>>
>> --
>> Alasdair Turner
>> Course Director
>> MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation
>> Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
>> UCL Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT
>>
>> http://www.aac.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/
>
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