On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:17:27 -0400 Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:10 AM Mateusz Konieczny > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * easy to edit by community > > > > I am dubious whatever "anybody can > > edit any preset stored as wikidata > > items" will be considered as benefit > > > > One could also doubt that allowing direct OSM and Wikipedia edits by > anyone would be considered as a benefit... But it does, doesn't it? > Worst case scenario: someone breaks a preset - with so many eyes on > them (exposed via wiki pages, used by all editors, monitored via > numerous tools, cross-checked by validation queries, etc etc etc), it > will be fixed within minutes. Wikipedia is a good comparison, but not in the way you intended it. Wikipedia has special permissions for changing widely-used templates or the website interface itself: the "template editor" and "interface administrator" permissions. An ordinary editor can only mess up one article at a time, while a template editor can mess up a half-million articles in a single go, and an interface administrator can vandalize every page on Wikipedia at once. If someone breaks the preset for something like "building=yes", then sure, it'll be spotted and fixed in a matter of minutes. But in the meantime, there'll be hundreds of mis-tagged buildings, many of them in places that nobody will review for years. -- Mark _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
