koriakine
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Hello all! We want you to help us with this article, if there are any problems with English or meaning. Will be published only after your revision and correction.
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Title: Wikimapia Reaches 1 Million Registered Users and becomes open!
Text: The idea of "describing the whole world" has spread through the internet and found millions of admirers. We thank our users, registered or not, who have been so great at adding unique information about different places on the Earth and sharing it with other people.
In order to celebrate reaching this important milestone, Wikimapia becomes open by offering all of its data under the Non-Commercial Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa, linking to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/<;!-- m -->). All data is available through Wikimapia API.
We are grateful to have all of you with us and we look forward to benefits which will bring free knowledge to the humankind. Every new user, every new added place brings closer the goal of Wikimapia.
Let's describe the whole world!
Your, Wikimapia team.[/b:2t2a4xpo] |
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bigtex
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koriakine -
Good first pass at the news article.
"becomes open" ( I need more/other words here)
" has spread through the Internet" (use the word "throughout" instead of through)
"license (by-nc-sa, " (I would delete the words "license (by-nc-sa, linking to" and insert "from"
"free knowledge to the humankind" (delete "humankind" and use the "World" instead - with the capital)
"brings closer the goal" (insert "us" after "brings" and insert word "to" just after "closer")
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w8r
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Wikimapia Reaches 1 Million Registered Users and becomes open-content
We are grateful to have all of you with us and we look forward to [b:2hkpgzgc]the[/b:2hkpgzgc] benefits [b:2hkpgzgc]the free knowledge will bring[/b:2hkpgzgc] to the humankind. Every new user, every new added place brings [b:2hkpgzgc]us[/b:2hkpgzgc] closer the goal of Wikimapia. |
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bigtex
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w8r -
the word "humankind" is better spoken as "World". "Humankind" definitely has a foreign sound/usage to it. Hope no offense taken by my comment - was NOT meant to be that at all.
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bigtex
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ps - when "World" is used this way - ALWAYS capitalize the word.
yes I can be "pedantic" (LOL) (smilie)
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koriakine
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Tex,
"brings closer the goal" (insert "us" after "brings" and insert word "to" just after "closer")
We didn't want to use "us" because it would possibly point only at Wikimapia team, not to all people. Would it? |
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w8r
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| Every new user, every new added place is a step towards the goal of Wikimapia? |
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w8r
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| or [b:1qglp4l7]forwards to the goal[/b:1qglp4l7] |
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Teresa
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Similar to Tex, this is how I would write the whole thing, not a great deal of difference from the original:
Title: Wikimapia reaches around one million registered users, and has become open to all!
Text: The idea of "describing the whole world" has spread throughout the internet, and has found millions of admirers. We thank our users, registered or not, who have been so great at adding unique information about different places on Earth, and for sharing it with other people.
In order to celebrate reaching this important milestone, Wikimapia has become fully open, by offering all of its data under the Non-Commercial Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa, linking to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). All data are available through Wikimapia API.
We are grateful to have all of you with us, and we look forward to reaping benefits which will bring free knowledge to the human-kind. Every new user, every new added place, brings closer the goal of Wikimapia.
Let's describe the whole world!
From your Wikimapia team. |
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bio2935c
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Title: [b:30jul9kc]Wikimapia reaches 1 Million Registered Users and becomes Open-Content![/b:30jul9kc]
Text: [b:30jul9kc]The idea of "describing the whole world" has spread throughout the Internet and has found millions of admirers. We thank our users, registered or not, who have been so great at adding unique information about different places on Earth and sharing it with other people.
In order to celebrate reaching this important milestone, Wikimapia has become fully open by offering all of its data under the Non-Commercial Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa[/b:30jul9kc], linking to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/<;!-- m -->[b:30jul9kc]). All data is available through the Wikimapia API.
We are grateful to have all of you with us and we look forward to the benefits of bringing free knowledge to all of humanity. Every new user and every new added place brings Wikimapia closer to its goal.
Let's describe the whole world!
from your Wikimapia team.[/b:30jul9kc]
Comments:
-> "Humankind", although a word, doesn't work here. You might use it when you want to emphasize the difference between humankind and non-humankind, for example.
-> You could change "all of humanity" to "the whole world" and it would still mean the same. |
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davechiew
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Cookie Monster's version looks good.
However, I feel the phrase "[b:1i9tttev]bringing free knowledge to all of humanity[/b:1i9tttev]" (in the third line) sounds a little bit awkward.
May I suggest "[b:1i9tttev]bringing free knowledge to [u:1i9tttev]all mankind.[/u:1i9tttev][/b:1i9tttev]"?
Perhaps that was what the original author had in mind when he said "humankind". |
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koriakine
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Thanks all! I am updating this version to most:
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Wikimapia reaches 1 Million Registered Users and becomes Open-Content!
The idea of "describing the whole world" has spread throughout the Internet and has found millions of admirers. We thank our users, registered or not, who have been so great at adding unique information about different places on Earth and sharing it with other people.
In order to celebrate reaching this important milestone, Wikimapia has become fully open by offering all of its data under the [i:33g3u3gu]Non-Commercial Creative Commons license[/i:33g3u3gu] (linking italic to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/<;!-- m -->). All data is available through the Wikimapia API.
We are grateful to have all of you with us and we look forward to the benefits of bringing free knowledge to all mankind. Every new user and every new added place brings Wikimapia closer to its goal.
Let's describe the whole world!
From your Wikimapia team.
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Mankind - I like this word a little bit more, because there's no need to put "of". |
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koriakine
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| As no more correction, this evening it planned to be published. |
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