On 19/05/2015 11:50, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Am 19.05.2015 um 01:47 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com>:
How about if first edits caused some sort of flag that experienced users see,
and can welcome and thank the new user
for registering and contributing. This is possible now, but not really part of
the standard tool set and definitely not part of the culture.
Around here I know some people doing it, myself included. I'm using an rss feed
generated by Pascal Neis' new mapper service, together with IFTTT (to get an
email automatically), feedback is always positive (if any).
The Polish and Italian communities do or did send automatic messages to
all new mappers in their area (or actually, 75% of them, to see what
effect sending vs not sending had). I did some analysis on the
retention of those mappers and couldn't find any kind of correlation:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/welcomewg/2013-March/000022.html
Whether there's a correlation against quality of edits wasn't looked at
(and would need a definition of "quality" of course).
Ages ago I wrote this up:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/new_mapper_messages
That's still more or less what I do locally although I tend to use
changeset discussions now (give them chance to fix their own errors
first unless they're causing serious damage, then offer to help). In the
UK there are probably a dozen or so people "looking after" new mappers
in their own different areas. From looking at Pascal Neis' site:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions#2/36.0/-10.5
it appears that it's fairly common in other areas of the world too.
Also, it's worth mentioning that despite people sometimes describing OSM
as "unfriendly" the vast majority of changeset discussion comments,
especially to new users, are very friendly and "happy to help".
Cheers,
Andy
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