As a relative newbie I am not going to get too involved in this debate but would just make three simple comments:
1. When I was a complete newbie (mapper) I would probably never have continued with this excellent osm project had there not been a mapfeatures page ... I would have been completely lost as to how to proceed and would have just given up. The community would have lost a keen mapper (as it's me - perhaps no bad thing (;>). So, although I understand the thought behind removing mapfeatures I would "vote" (??? (;>) ???) against the proposal unless mapfeatures is replaced by something else (what?). Förlåt, Erik, det är inte bra! 2. If we have a voting system - until we vote against it - we should use it. To ignore it imho denies the most basic underlying principle of any wiki. 3. There might be merit in restricting voting to an enfranchised sub-community - I would not dare to vote on most proposals, at least not yet, because I feel I don't have enough understanding either of osm or of the tag subject matter. It would be (very) imperfect but how about a pop quiz for would-be voters that becomes available after, say, a year's active use of the site? (:>?) Sei einsieitig Streichung - ohne Verhandlung ... höflich? Regards to ALL of my colleagues Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Erik Johansson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 31 January 2009 12:03 To: Richard Fairhurst Cc: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm starting to wonder about a "Tags I Use" system. "How should I tag this" is one of the most commonly asked questions. The wiki vote system works as a good system for commenting on proposals,you system does not help this. Great idea, though it wont replace voting. > I document it - maybe on the wiki [...] > Then, for those who like to have everything in a central place, once > the tags have been used n times, they can go in Map Features. I think mapfeatures is the problem. Not only socially ("this tag must be in mapfeatures") but technically (wikiload). So remove mapfeatures as first step. -- /emj _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
