On Dec 25, 2007 2:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Karl Newman wrote: > > The proposal page is a > > mess, and I'm tempted to wipe it out and start over. > > This is something that should be done more often, and more liberally, on > our Wiki. Only recently someone said on the German-language mailing list > "well since using the coastline tag is deprecated..." and I went "WHAT?" > - turns out that someone, with the very best intentions, accidentally > resurrected half-year-old arguments against coastline tagging from the > Wiki page and somehow created a conclusion that sounded like "coastline > tagging is dead". > > I know that in the big Wikis, there's a culture of never deleting > other's comments on the talk page lest you step on their toes, but in a > fast-moving environment like ours where people's attention is sometimes > very sporadic, I think we should really delete (or at least, archive, > but then the Wiki does that for us) anything that does not reflect the > current state of affairs. > > Bye > Frederik
Yes, I noticed that on this Wiki as well--there's a lot of old, superseded information hanging around. Also a lot of isolated, poorly-connected pages with conflicting information (instead of expanding an existing page). I've been guilty of that, too (adding to a page instead of editing) in keeping with what I perceived to be the prevailing attitude. Seems like this project is in need of a benevolent (or otherwise?) dictator. (I'm not volunteering). Karl _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
