Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-20 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 19 December 2014 at 12:10, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: For iD, names are suggested via https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/ , and https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/master/canonical.json is the canonical list of known good ones. I have written a

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 18/12/2014 18:59, Rovastar wrote: Well please share the thoughts about what suggestions you have. The big problem is not really whether a particular shop has an apostrophe in the name or not, but the fact that we don't have anything like all of said shops mapped. I suggested that any

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-19 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 19 December 2014 at 12:10, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: I suggested that any plan for changes to the shop names and values that we have now would also need to address how new users decide which ones to use. For iD, names are suggested via

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-19 Thread Rovastar
Andy, I idea that lets not fix things as it might be better to resurvey by hand for rejecting it is not any part of DWG policy or standards. You should stop pretending like it is. It seems like you want to appease the people those they think there area is mapped and need prompting to do any

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-18 Thread SomeoneElse
On 18/12/2014 10:24, Dan S wrote: Hi Matthijs, The DWG email used the word consensus inappropriately, since consensus means everyone agreeing, and we didn't. However, consensus is essentially impossible in big wiki communities like ours, so let's assume there's a relative meaning of the term ;)

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-18 Thread Jo Walsh
On reflection, I don't really laugh with scorn in the face of the Mechanical Edit Policy. But it certainly looks like a mess to me. My take would be to attempt to extract the spirit of that policy and not bother kvetching over the letter of it. The phrase rough consensus and running code is

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

2014-12-17 Thread Jo Walsh
Hello again. I recently volunteered to serve on the DWG as a form of intellectual self-punishment, and that's working out pretty well for me so far. One thing I'm nudging for in the DWG is more documentation around the cases dealt with by the DWG. What evidence is considered, and where there