Hi, Nic Roets wrote: > Let's say a newbie messes up a region near you. A few weeks later you > discover it and confronts the user who admits his mistake. So you fire up > your undo script (if you're lucky enough to have one). > > It will work where the newbie was the last user to edit stuff. Except it's > impossible for a script to detect the difference between > * a good user manually repairing the vandalism, perhaps adding a few things > AND > * a bot fixing spelling mistakes, a bot fixing potlatch mistakes and a bot > fixing mistakes made by the previous two bots.
I believe that in serious cases, one would really have to revert the whole area to the last known good state and maybe send messages to everyone whose edits were reverted. Reverting on any nontrivial scale is already an art form because we have so many contributors that unless the error is noticed extremely quickly, many add-on-edits or attempted manual repairs will always have happened before any automated revert can kick in. As long as bots use their own accounts or another means of making themselves known (as is suggested in the code of conduct here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct), then any revert script can easily discern automated edits from human ones. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
