Having a wiki is great but the 'anyone can edit' model is not good for pages that are meant to be authoritative, documenting the meaning of tags in use, or giving best practice for new editors. Allowing instant changes to specification documents by any user makes about as much sense as allowing anyone to change the Potlatch code immediately. Of course you can get the source to Potlatch and change it, but your changes must be accepted by the maintainer before they go live on the site.
Perhaps the tag documentation pages should be protected somehow, with changes proposed in the Discussion section before a group of maintainers accepts them into the main copy. The difficulty with this is finding those willing and suitable to act as maintainers, and avoiding Wikipedia-like power struggles. So maybe the current somewhat chaotic situation is the best we can hope for. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
