On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Peat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: >> What are the results? >> ... >> The most common comment quality is 18. >> Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36. >> Bots usually have comment quality under one. >> > > Equating changeset comment quality with mapper quality is total BS. > Descriptive comments are helpful to other mappers but that is all. > They don't tell you anything about the quality of the changes.
Directly measuring the quality of the edits sounds hard. Some mappers find low quality comments sufficient to consider a mapper to be lower quality. I know that this won't apply in all cases. > I think that in well mapped areas if your contributions persist over > time then probably you are a good mapper. If your changesets are > frequently reverted or your contributions are quickly edited by others > then probably not. That might be a way to measure edit quality. hmmm. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
