> On Nov 14, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Michał Brzozowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, tony wroblewski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think people need a playpen where they can try out ideas and map >> before contributing to the main map (Maybe there already is, I don't >> know). I think it should also be a requirement that people add a >> comment upon every commit to avoid such arguments. I'm getting a >> little tired of seeing constant updates in my area from people who >> don't add comments on why or what they've changed. > > I do agree this is needed, as in Wikipedia. But how would people get > the feedback on what they mapped?
We could require the first few changesets a newbie submits to require review before going into the database. Make it obvious that they are in a trial period so they don’t need to worry about breaking things. We’d need a special queue for these to go into, and a roulette for experienced mappers to yes/no/feedback them. This would also be helpful for when all those new spam accounts starting changing phone numbers to 900 (pay per call) numbers and URLs to malware/scam sites. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
