On 3 Sep 2009, at 14:34, Peter Körner wrote: > Richard Weait schrieb: >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Peter Körner<osm- >> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> Making 10 changesets of more than 10 features each over a period >>>> of at >>>> least 2 weeks without attracting reverts or complaints should be >>>> sufficient I would have thought. That would mean that a newbie >>>> who gets >>>> on with it can be 'established' within 2 weeks. I think that was >>>> how >>>> long it took me to get rights to upload images to Wikipiedia. Some >>>> vandals will slip through, but that is fine - we can deal with >>>> them in >>>> the usual way. >>> We'll have to build a simple, calculateble and provable >>> explanation from >>> that, that every newbee understands. Also we should create a error- >>> text >>> that the tool displays when the conditions are not (yet) matched. >>> This >>> text should not demoralize the avarage user and tell him how long it >>> will take until he can use this tool and why he can't use it yet. >>> Any >>> copywriter out here? >> >> The revert button (or other UI decoration) should not appear for >> users >> that are not logged-in. Perhaps revert should be invisible for users >> that are not yet able to revert? > > I'm talking about building an external tool without any integration > into > osm.org, as this is what i'm capable of. This tool can be visited by > any > user and any user may do OAuth-Sign-In with this tool. The tool can't > tell if the user is allowed to revert until he has gone through this > procedure, so it's got to present a notice to the user that just > authenticated and is still not allowed to use the tool.
Ok, so I have just had an RSS alert that Liam123 is back editing again today after a delay of 3 weeks. His edits are random and far reaching, often in Essex and Kent but also in other places. His edit log ominously says he is 'still editing' [1] [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liam123/edits Regards, Peter > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
