Ralph,
Crisis management, redundance, and yes sometimes frustrating. But we have to
keep our positive energy after running non stop since saturday morning.
Crowdsourcing, we evolve from these experiences in context of crisis.
We would surely need a validation process that let's focus on the less
experienced contributors.
I wonder if such information could be extracted from the Task manager - Tasks
completed by contributors less then xx months of experience ??
Should we have a team of validators that work together and identify ways to go
on with validation and assure both quick response and quality?
Pierre
De : AYTOUN RALPH <[email protected]>
À : [email protected]
Envoyé le : Lundi 27 avril 2015 11h25
Objet : [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!
If I don't scream I will end up tearing my hair out.We need to change what we
are doing and who we are letting in to do it.These Activations in response to a
disaster means that people's lives are at stake here. I am finding totally
inexperienced mappers (some with no completed tiles and others with only one or
two completed tiles) messing around with validating tiles or unlocking already
validated tiles and working on them. I have a screen shot of Nepal #944 showing
5 validated tiles are actively locked. When I checked on the people that were
doing this they were complete beginners.I have had one of the tiles I had
completed opened by one of these beginners and started adding short little
sections of disconnected roads (The instructions specifically ask us not to add
these) then validating this tile, then invalidating it again.While I am all in
favour of getting new mappers up and going this should only be done on the
Missing Maps project and not on HOT Activations. It is extremely important that
we get it right as quickly as possible for those people out in the field with
injured and dead all around them and lives at stake for us to be rechecking
already validated tiles because we can no longer trust them to be correct or
near to correct.We have already had complaints about poor quality work in the
past and this type of activity is not going to get us any better credibility.
We really need to rethink the "open to all" policy for HOT Activations.I am now
looking at #944 which shows 63% Validated right now and there is two more
Validated tiles that are actively locked.I no longer trust the Green marked
tiles as being checked and cleared. I know that the majority of what we are
producing will be of some assistance in the hills of Nepal but can also imagine
the frustration of those people with some of the nonsense I have managed to
clean up while validating.OK. Rant over. I will be sending out messages to all
the new mappers I have identified asking them to only work on the white tiles
and not to open any of the orange or green ones until they have a lot more
experience.Sorry to have interrupted you in the middle of this crisis but felt
that this needed to be said.Ralph (RAytoun)
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