I just realized that if you try to edit a wiki data item, it records a change every time you edit a single line. So if you delete 3 "combinations", you make 3 new edits in the history. I didn't see an option to add a comment about my edits, but perhaps I missed it.
This makes it nearly impossible to "follow" the wiki data items like you would follow a Tag: or Key: page. - Joseph Eisenberg On 1/15/20, Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 15 Jan 2020, 14:10 by [email protected]: > >> On 15/01/2020 12:03, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >> >>> >>> 15 Jan 2020, 12:57 by >> [email protected]>> : >>> >>>> I'm very unhappy with that. >>>> >>>> >>> Please, please comment on the OSM Wiki if you want to comment. >>> >>> >> >> What would be useful is a separate discussion about what wiki "data >> items" are and why there are a good (or bad) idea. That doesn't >> really belong in > >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#Transition_to_use_data_items_when_this_can_be_done_without_loosing_information> >> because that seems tied up in the specifics of one particular tag >> (and lets be honest, wiki pages aren't good at threaded discussion). >> >> > I kind of agree, but I am not someone who started the disussion. > > It is complaining about my specific edit as an example but proposes > something more general. > >> >> Maybe someone who thinks this particular change is a good (or bad) >> idea should write a diary entry or create a thread here explaining >> what the point of the change is and what the benefits are, and what >> the impact on people who use the wiki for reference and on people who >> edit it is? >> >> > If someone wants to change current state (remove data from Wiki pages and > move it somewhere > else) then they should explain why it is worth doing. > > Change should not be done for a sake of change. > > Personally, I tried using data items and immediately encountered severe > problems > (some listed in the linked wiki discussion). > >> >> There is a page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_items> but >> that fails to communicate much of that to me (someone whose first >> language is English and has been reading technical documentation for >> 40 years). Until that happens the rest of us are just going to >> assume that the OSM wiki is a series of pages that we can just edit >> to document things in OSM to help other mappers (which presumably was >> the original point) and ignore anything else >> >> > +1 > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
