hi I called it an "undo *request* button. If I see a problem in the changelog I'm not able to revert it. There is no defined way to report the problem.
The real problem starts if people start to repair manually. What about a button that opens a dialog where people can describe the problem. The problem description including changeset id could be sent to a special (ninja mapper) mailing list, or to an RSS file, or to some special users,... In some cases the revert could be done without human review. Example: o user wants to revert the own edits o "power user" (mapper since 2 years) reverts changes of new user o ... Once the reporting UI is done it can start with manual reverts and can be improved doing automatic reverts. Bernhard > You are confusing what is technically possible with what is socially > acceptable. Frederik's point was that when you are doing a revert you > should consider whether (socially speaking) it is appropriate. > > So, to use his examples, if somebody mails him saying "I just made a > mistake, can you revert my edit" then that is obviously fine; but if > somebody on the other side of the world emails him saying "X keeps > making bad edits, can you revert them" then he will decline as he has no > way of knowing the background to the situation or who is right. > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
