On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> As Thilo had pointed out, removing off-topic info from the Wiki is not a > documented activity of the DWG > It's not? Hmmmmm... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group says: DWG members perform a variety of activities. and: The Data Working Group is empowered to put *temporary* blocks (up to 96 hours) on user activity on OSM. This is to force people engaging in questionable activity to pause their efforts, to give other community members time to discuss, and so on. Taken together, those do not exclude removing off-topic info from the Wiki and imply that doing so is within the scope of the DWG. Editing the Wiki is a user activity... That same page also says: If you find any acts of vandalism, illegal copying from sources, or major border alterations, and the user does not respond to messages, you can contact the Data Working Group So how is vandalism defined? That's on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism which says: There are various *other types* of bad editing which are very similar to vandalism, carried out with various motivations beyond childish fun, but resulting in the need for the same types of remedies. These include: - [...] - Disputes on the wiki - [...] I'll leave you to peruse the documentation yourself to confirm that the DWG is also the dispute resolution authority in the event of vandalism (hint: it's on one of those two pages I gave links for and it's not hard to find). So the documentation does indeed say that it is within the scope of the DWG to remove off-topic info from the Wiki, and that the DWG is the final arbiter of what is and isn't off-topic on the Wiki. -- Paul
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