Hi, On 05/08/2015 08:00 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > There's another problem page at "OpenStreetMap is a social activity". > Sigh. Lots of good cleanup edits. Lots of blundering elephant edits.
Yes, it doesn't feel good to point fingers at individuals but I, too, have the impression that Xxzme's overbearing control of the Wiki is not for the best. I seems to me that they're genuinely trying to help, and investing quite some time, but from interactions with others I can see that they tend to be intimidating and have a very stubborn sense of what is right and what is wrong. The relentless renaming and re-organising of content may feel to them like a necessary move to organize content properly but I think these unannounced and undiscussed edits have the potential to alienate other users of the Wiki who should have an equal voice, but are too often harshly overruled by Xxzme. This is compounded by Xxzme, unlike most other contributors to the Wiki, not caring to share any personal information about them - not their real name, not where they live or what they like. This is not a condition for participation on a normal scale, but with Xxzme making a significant portion of edits to the Wiki it feels like the Wiki has been taken over by someone that nobody knows at all and who doesn't want to be known. It doesn't really feel like a community effort. I appreciate that Xxzme has spent a lot of time trying to make the Wiki better and I believe they did manage to make improvements, but looking at the complete picture I would politely ask Xxzme to find another occupation, and stop editing on the OSM wiki altogether. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
